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By DAVID L. BRADLEY. 

(EDITOR AMERICAN SHIPBUILDER. 

7 CoENTiEs Slit, New York, 



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PRICES :— CLOTH. TLEXIBLE. $1.00 : FULL CLOTH, HEAVY, $2.00. 



JUNE, 1896. 



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PREFACE 



^ll|ljHILE editor and proprietor of tlie MARITIME REPORTER (tlie first illustrated 
'ill marine paper in tlie United States) and v hen the re-numbering of piers were so 
I misleading, 1 conceived the idea of publishing a Directory, which, in its 

originality and accuracy would supply the requirements of not only the shipping com- 
munity, but the general public as well- It embraced the water fronts of New York, 
Brooklyn and Jersey City, giving the location of every vessel line (steam and sail) and 
all business firms along tlie entire water fronts, accompanied by diagrams of the streets 
of the three cities, etc. The work was a success from the start, and, owing to its 
reliability and completeness, gained a flattering reputation and large sales. As 'fast as 
changes were made this Directory contained them, thus making it correct in every 
particular to date of public. ition, hence the demand for each succeeding edition greatly 
increased. The piesent edition embraces many new and original features: — Maps of the 
Two Entrances to New York Harbor— Sandy Hook and East River— showing the several 
channels leading thereto ; also, two-page chart of New York Upper Bay and Newark Bay, 
Kill-Von-Kull, and several important inlets on Long Island Sound ; the depth of water 
as per U.S. Government latest surveys are distinctly given; also, maps of Hell Gate, 
Harlem River, Newtown Creek, Atlantic Basin, Erie Basin, Gowanus Bay, Boundary 
Line between New York and New Jersey. The Directory alone has twenty-two separate 
diagrams, showing the streets leading to the water fronts of the three cities, location -of 
all Business Firms, Ocean Steamers, River and Sound Steamboats, Sailing Vessel Lines, 
Freight Lines, Ferries; in fact, everything along the entire water fronts. There are also 
tr-bles showing the distance from New York to different parts of the world, including 
the Hudson River, Long Island Sound, etc., etc. 

52 East 34th Street, DAVID L. BRADLEY. 

Bayonne, N. J. 



CONTENTS 



undreds of Compani 
carefully arranged i 



Maps and Charts : — 

New York and Newark Bays - - lo 

Sandy Hook Entrance to New York - 

Set of Tide in Newark Bay .... 

Long Island Sound : — 
Boundary Line between New York and New Jersey 
East Chester Bay . - - - . - 
East Kiver Entrance to New York 
Flushing Bay -..-.-- 
Great Neck lo Malinicock Point 

Hemstead Bay 

Huntington Bay 

Little Neck Bay 

Manhasset Bay 

NortHport Bay - - 

Oak Point to Eaton's Neck . - - - 

Ufyter Bay 

Port Morris to Great Neck .... 

New York — North River Diagrams : — 
Battery to North Moore Street . - - . 
Gansevuort Street to W. 35th Street 
North Moore to Gansevoort Street 
VV. 35lh to W. 86th Street - - . - 

East River Diagrams : — 
Atlantic Basin and Erie Basin - 
Battery to Pier 3Q - 

E. 4lh to E. 25lh Street 

E. 25lh to E. 50th Street - - - . 

E. 5cth to E. Sgth Street 

E. Sgth Street to Hudson River ... 41 

Harlem River Improvement .... 

Hamilton Avenue tn Navy Yard - 

Navy Yard and Wallabout Creek 

Newtown Creek — entire length 

Newtown Creek to Astoria .... 

Pier 39 to E. 4th Street .... 

South Brooklyn 

Wallabout Creek to Newtown Creek 

Jersey City Diagrams : — 
Communipaw and Morris Canal . . - - 
Morris Canal to Favonia Ferrj' 
Pavonia Kerry to Weehawken . . . - 

Distances on the Hudson River 

Distances and Bearings on Long Island Sound - 

Distances on Long Island Sound from Battery 

>erries from New York City 

Reminiscences of New York Harbor . - 5 ' 

Steamship Routes 



Steamship Lines — North River :— 

Allan-State Line 

American Line to Southampton . 

Anchor Line, to Glasgow . . . ■ 

Atlas Mail Line, to West Indies 

Arrow Line to Leith, Scotland 

Atlantic Transport Line for London 

Bristol Line . - . - - 

Cunard Line . . . - 

Campagnie Gen'l Transatlantique Line, 1 

Columbian Line 

Cromwell Line, for New Orleans 

Kerr's Line to Jamaica 

Munson Line, to Cuba and Mexic 

Metropolitan Line, for Boston - 



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National Line (passengers and freight) - - 22 

Old Dominion Line 22 

Ocean Line, for Savannah .... 22 

Quebec Line, Bermuda and West Indies • - 22 

Red Star (American) Line, to Antwerp . - 20 

Southern Pacific (Morgan Line) . . .20, 22 

White Star Line (cargo and live stock) - . 22 

White Star Line (passenger and freight) - . 22 

Steamship Lines — East River ; — 

Campania Transatlantic Espanola line - - 28 

Clyde Steamship Service 28, 30 

Mallory Line, for Texas .... 28 

Maine Line 28 

New Bedford Line . . - - . 30 

New York and Haiti Packet Line - - - 28 

New York and Cuba Line (J. E. Ward & Co.) 28 

West India Line (Wm. P. Clyde & Co. , - - 28 

Steamship Lines — Atlantic Basin : — 

Bordeaux Line ...... 46 

Corapaganie Nationale de Navigation a Vapeur 

Line, Marseilles .... r 46 

Central American Ijne .... 46 

Earn Line ....... 46 

Knott's River Line 46 

Norton L'ne 46, 50 

New York and Porto Rico Line ... 46 

New York and Nicaragua Line .... 46 

Tramp Lines ...... 46 

Union Direct Hamburg Line - - - - 46 

Steamship Lines — -Brooklyn : — 

Anchor Line (freight) ... - - 48 

Booth Line 48 

Cyp'n Fabres French Line, for Marseilles - 48 

Lamport and Holt Line for Brazil . - - 48 

Mediterranean and New York Steamship ' o. - 48 

Red Cross Line, for North Brazil . . - 48 

Red D. Line, for Laguara etc. ... 48 
Royal Dutch India Mail Service Line, for Port 

au Prince, etc. 48 

Red Cross Line ....-- 48 

Trinidad Shipping and Trading Line - - - 48 

Vogemann Line for Hamburg ... 48 

Wilson Lines for Leith, Newcastle on Tjne & Hull 48 

West India Line 48 

Steamship Lines — Jersey City and Hoboken : — 

International Navigation Co. (Red Star Line) - 57 

Hamburg American Packet Co. . - - 60 

Manhasset Line 59 

North German U. S. M. Line ... 6j 
Netherland's American Steam Navigation Co. 

U. S. M. for Amsterdam ... - 60 

Ocean Line (Ireigbt), for Savannah - - 60 

Phcenix Line to .\nlwerp 60 

Sicilian Line 57 

Thingvalla Line - ... - - 60 

Dry Docks and Shipyards 

28, 30, 32, 44, 46, 53, 54, 57- 60 
Ocean Sailing Vessels . - - - 28, 30, 46 
Passenger and Freight Steaml) lat Lin:— East 

River - - - - - - 28, 34, 50 

Passenger and Freight Steamboat Lines — North 

Kiver 20 22, 24 

Railroad Freight Stations 

20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 34, 52, 53- 59, 60 



BRADLEY'S REMINISCENCES OF NEW YORK HARBOR. 



New York Harbor. 



HIS Harbor is a history In Itself, and has been appropriately calle'd " the cradle of steam navigation," 
for it was here, In 1807, that the first practical and successful venture In steamboating was made- 
In that year the Clermont was built from designs of Robert Fulton, the Inventor. This steamer 
made her first trip from New York to Albany in thirty-two hours, while It took the packet sloops 
from four to six days. The rapid success of steam navigation on the Hudson River followed as a 
necessity, and at the present time that "Queen of Rivers" can boast of the finest and fastest steamers 
In the world. The first steamship to cross the Atlantic— the Savannah— was also built In New York, by 
Francis Frickett and David Crocker, at Corlears Hook, East River, from designs by Wm. Scarborough, 
of Savannah, Ga. The keel was laid in 1818, and she was launched August 22nd of the same year. 
She was a full-rigged ship of 350 tons burthen, and had a direct acting, low pressure engine of qo h. p ; 
diameter of cylinder 40-lnches, and 5-foot stroke of piston. The engine was built by Stephen Vail, at 
Speedwell Iron Works, near Morristewn, N- J.; boilers by Daniel Dodd, Ellzabethport, N- J. 

These were two Important events In river and ocean navigation and began a new era In 
commercial Intercourse between the old and the new world, and instilled new life into the shipbuilding 
Industry, so that In 1831 New York City became the leading place in the United States for this branch 
of business. Among the most prominent shipbuilders located here at that time were the following : 
Wm. H. Webb, one of America's greatest ship constructors and a most distinguished philanthropist. 
His famous shipyard was at the foot of Seventh Street, East River. There were also Bergh & Co., 
Webb & Allen, Bell & Brown, Frickett & Thomas, Smith & DImon ; later, Divine Burtis. Wm. H. 
Brown, Wm. Colyer, Thos. Colyer, John Englls. and a few others of lesser note. In 1831 the Allaire 
and Novelty Works were the only builders of note of marine engines; later, Fletcher & Harrison, the 
Morgan, the Phcenlx and a few other engine building works were established. 

Three years previous to 1831 the arrivals and departures of river steamers at New York 
reached 6,400, transporting 320,000 passengers. It Is mainly due to the State Canal system that New 
York City's present supremacy Is attributed. If we look back to the commencement of the present 
century we will find that Pennsylvania led the Empire State In population and wealth. At that time 
New York City had a population of 60,615, while Philadelphia had 81,000, and even Baltimore came 
within 1,503 of being up to our Metropolis. No later back than 1820 Philadelphia led our city by 
11,931. It was not long, however, after the Erie Canal was opened, ere New York overtook her 
competitors. The canal In regulating the freight rates of the railroads, by which the public was 
protected against unjust discrimination and extortionate charges, was the means of booming our port, 
hence Its rapid progress. 

The commercial interests of New York City had reached such proportions that her avail ible 
water front was inadequate to accommodate the Increased shipping. But relief came at last — the United 
States Government heeded the urgent appeals for improving the Harlem River, and It Is now navigable 
from the East River to the Hudson, and wharves are gradually springing up along the intervening 
seven miles. The Importance of this undertaking to the -prosperity of New York is inestimable, as it 
has been needed for many years. It must be borne In mind that two-thirds of the merchandise 
imported into the United States Is received at the port of New York, and two-thirds of the import 
duties are collected here. Three-fourths of the passengers travelling between the United States and 
foreign countries come and go by way of New York, and three-fourths of all Immigrants land here. 
The commercial statistics of the port from July ist, 1894, to July ist, 1895, show that 3,315 foreign 
vessels entered and 3,228 cleared ; American vessels from foreign ports, i,oj2. Total registered tonnage, 
I7.,344,44i. 



BRADLEY'S REMINISCENCES OF NEW YORK HARBOR. 



The achievements of Americans on Ihe ocean are of the most brilliant character. The infant 
navy in the war of 1812 achieved success which astonished even our most sanguine patriots, and placed 
the American Republic in the front rank among maritime powers. Then came the period of clipper 
ships built in New York and Brooklyn yards and commanded by true blue American ofTuers. Most 
of these vessels haj their piers on the East River side and the old resident will recall his feelings of 
pride and exultation as he saw the Red Jacket, Sovereign of the Seas, and a host of other clippers, 
pointing their trim bows toward the Narrows, or coming up the Harbor with all flags flying, after a 
successful voyage to London, Liverpool, San Francisco and China. Tugboats were hired by the packet 
ships in cases of emergency only. It cost $125.00 to be towed from a pier to three miles beyond 
Sandy Hook. The newspapers chronicled the vessel arrivals and departures in bold head lines, and 
their quick passages were the subject of conversation in all circles. In 184} the largest sailing ship 
in e.xistence was i.oco tons. It was not given a thought in tliose days that steam would eventually 
drive sailing ships from the ocean between New York and leading European ports, as they have done. 

The first iron clad battery was conceived by. Robert L. Stevens, of Hoboken, N. J , in i8j2. 
It was to ha/e been an iron armored ship, 250 feet in length. The keel was laid at the foot of 
Fourth Street, Hoboken, in 1842. At odd periods new improvements were designed, and upon his 
death Mr. Stevens left one million dollars with which to complete the vessel, directing that it should 
then he given to the State of New Jersey. The million was expended, suits were brought by heirs, 
and at last, in 18S0. the unfinished war vessel was sold as old material to W. E. Laimbjer for >55,ooo. 

For the protection of the port of New York from pestilent! il diseases the Provincial Legislature, 
in 1758, established a quarantine sUtion on Bedloe's Island. In 1768 th- station was removeJ to 
Governor's Island, and in 1801 it was transferred to Tompkinsville, S. I , remaining there for many 
years, until the steamship Falcon, in 1859, was used for the purpose, and was anchored just below 
the Narrows. Between the years 1866 and 1870 an artificial island.CSwinburne Island) was made on West 
Bank shoal, and quarantine buildings were erected. Between 1868 and 187) Hoffman Island was made, 
and is used as a quarantine o( observation and isolation for immigrants who have been exposed to 
dangerous epidemics. 

Fort Hamilton, on the eastern shore (Long Island), is located on a military reservation of 
ninety-si.x acres. On an artificial island, just off Fort Hamilion. is Fort Lafayette, commenced in 1812 
and completed ten years later. It is now used as a storage for ordnance supplies. Fort Wadsworlh, 
across the Narrows from Fort Hamilton, is a three-tiered casemate rock of granite Back of this stands 
Fort Tompkins, which is heavily armed On Bedloe's Island is Fort Wood, built in 1841. 

Governor's Island was fortified as early as the year 179}, Congress at that time deciding that 
fortification of wood and sand be erected for the protection of the Harbor of New York. Old Fort 
Columbus was erected in 1806, and repLiced an older fort called after the first Chief Justice, Fort Jay. 
Since that period tlie island has been the residence of army officers. Castle William, a picturesque 
fortress on the northwest point, was built between the years 1808 and 1812. One of its old cannons 
has boomed forth the sunrise and sunset hours for many years. Governor's Island has an area of si.xty- 
five acres. The mean rise and fall of tide is 4.4 feet; m.iximum, 5.2 feet: minimum, 3.6 feet. 

Castle Garden is associated with so many incidents in the pa>t of Ne* York that a 
history of its various uses, since it ceased to be a fort, and was in warlike trim, would fill many 
pages. From the eariy days when its use as a defense of New York ceased, to within tlie time 
it was occupied by immigrants, it h.id received almost every nat'onal visitor through its hospitable 
gates. In 1819 the present building was (or rather its foundations were) built by the Government, 
which had obtained from the city a cession of the land upon which it stands. When built it was 
regarded as the strongest fortification which had ever been erected, and bid defunce to all the then 
known modes of att.ick. It was not long held as a fortress, its uses being simply as a recruiting 
station, and while occupied hy the army became a favorite resort of fashion. It was afterwards made 
the landing place for all Immigrants, where, under the guardianship of the Board of Commissioners, they 
found protection. It was formally opened by that Board in 1855. It is now transformed into a 
public aquarium. 



BRADLEY'S REMINISCENCES OF NEW YORK HARBOR. 



Sandy Hook Entrance to New York Harbor 




\[eW YORK HARBOR 



has two entrances, the 
Main or Sandy Hook 
entrance, which is 
equal to any other 
harbor entrance in the 
world, and the East 
River and Hell-Gate 
entrance, which has 
been in course of im- 
provement since 1869. 
About teii years ago, 
as the foreign com- 
merce of New York 
increased and the new 
types of trans-Atlantic 
steamships of larger 
size and of greater 
draught were rapidly 
superseding the old, 
the channels which led 
to our harbor were 
found shallow to a de- 
gree which threatened 
a total blockade for 
vessels of the larger 
tonnage. Steamships 
of the Aurania and 
City of Rome class 
frequently grounded on 

the Bar. The result of this, from a commercial point of view, was obvious. Steamships of enormous 
carrying capacity were compelled to go out lighter than their limit. This caused a large yearly loss' to 
shippers. On referring to the above diagram it will readily be perceived that the point of Sandy 
Hook on the south and Coney Island on the north, distant from each other seven miles, form the land 
barriers of the harbor, beginning at Coney Island, the first deep channel south, lies nearly parallel and 
close to the shore, useful for small coasters and pleasure steamers going to or coming from the East. 
A bank intervenes between this channel and the next deep water, known as the Fourteen-Foot-Channel. 
Then comes the East-Channel, a passageway quite unknown, or at least, announced prior to 1835, at 
which time the first United States survey was made. Immediately south of it lies the great Dry 
Romer Shoal, about six miles long and one and one-hUf miles broad, forming a natural division of the 
entrance waters— constant and firm both in nature and stability. South of this shoal are two channels 
which run at nearly right angles to each other from the bay outward, and which join together east 
of Sandy Hook, and by their junction create the bar channel, known as "Gedney's." In 1886 it was 
strongly urged, but to no avail, that the East Channel be made the steamship channel {s« lieaTj> line 
in map). It was argued that the Main Ship Channel was five miles longer than the East Channel, 
and that its five courses had to be steered through three distinct sets of current forces, as against two 



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in the East Channel, where only one set of waters— those from the Narrows— were encountered. As 
the foreign commerce of the Port of New York increased and the newer types of trans-Atlantic steam- 
ships of greater draught, so JiJ the improvements to our harbor entrances keep apace. Nearly all 
coast steamers and sea-going vessels of moderate draught use the S > ith and Swash channels. Ocean 
liners and deep draught freighters use the Gedney's and main channels ; the former has )o-fe?t at mean 
low water and a width of 1,000 feet Gedney's channel is about three miles outside of Sandy Hook 
and east by north of it. The Narrows arj about seven miles from the Battery and from the former to 
Sandy Hook is nine miles. Sandy HooK Lightship is 7S miles E.. ! S. from Sandy Hook Light. 
Scotland Light Ship is 3* miles E. S. E. from Sandy Hook Light. From the Narrows (which are one 
mile wide and thirty feet deep) to New York City there are no less than six fathoms of water in the 
main channel. The shortest distance across the Lower Bay from the point of Sandy Hook is seven 
miles. Main Ship Channel runs southward to a point about one mile west of the upper end of SanJy 
Hook, thence turning at right angles runs northward and east.vard for four miles to the head of Gedney's 
Channel. Conev Island Channel ii ten feet deip at msan low water. Fourteen-Foit Channel is nine- 
teen feet deep. Through Swash Channel twenty-two feet can bi carried at mean low water. Operations 
lor improving the Lower Bay, under project to provide a navigable channel i,odo feet wide and 30 feet 
deep, mean low water, from the sea along Gedney's Channel and the Main Ship Channel, was bigun 
September 26th, 1885, and completed October lolh, i8i)i. The distan.e from the Battery to thirty-foot 
soundings outside the Bar in Gedney's Channel is twenty t.v) mile> and by the Swash C'lannel it 
is eighteen miles, or, from the Narrows fifteen and eleven miles respectively. As surveyed in Dec. 
i8<)4 Swash Channel had a width of i.ooo feet and a dspth of 25 feet, mean low water. From tidal 
current and wave actions, Sandy Hoak, during 1894, receded seventy feet, and the north shore has 
moved in places as much as 300 feet. The rise and fall of tide at Rockaway Inlet is 4 feet ; maximum, 
4'; feet; minimum, }\ feet- In the Narrows is 4.5 feet; maximum, 5.3 feet; minimum, 3.7 feet 

When the shoal in Buttermilk Channel is entirely removed, this channel, south and west of 
the entrance to Atlantic Basin, will be 1,000 feet wide, and the set of the currents will be so direct 
along the southern margin of Governor's Island that the increased depth of 26 feet ivill be maintained. 

The yearly vessel traffic through Gowanus Creek has lately become very extensive. In the 
latter part of June, i8g4, the Red Hook Channel was 350 feet wide and 21 feet deep, mean low water ; 
the Gowanus Creek Channel was 185 to 215 feet wids and 21 feet deep, mean low water, and the 
Bay Ridge Channel was 375 feet wide and 21 feet deep, mean low water, from 28th Street south to 
42nd Street. South Brooklyn. In June last (1885), Gowanus Creek had a depth of 21 feet, mean low- 
water, between the harbor lines on both sides of the creek to the foot of Percival Street, and Red Hook 
Channel a width of 400 feet and depth of 21 feet, mean lo,v water; as did also Bay Ridge Channel. 

The River and Harbor bill of i8<j6 authorizes contracts for 5777.7'" for the improvement of 
New York Harbor ; the first installment is 56<>,o.k). for Bay Ridge. Gowanus Bay, Red Hook and Buttermilk 
Channel. The work to begin at the South end of Bay Ridge (2h innel and continue through the 
others in the order named for a mean low water depth of 26 feet. To meet the demands of increased 
commerce and the enlarged size of vessels it is provided that piers built between 17th Street and Gowanus 
Creek and Fort Hamilton, between the pier and bulkhead heads, be of a linear width not exceeding 
}"<. feet. 

It seems almost Incredible that the Island of Manhattan, upon which the metropolis of the 
Western Hemisphere stands to day, was, in 1626, purchased from the Indians by the Dutch West- 
India C . for the sum of sixty guilders, or twenty five dollars. The island was specified in the bill 
111 sale as consisting of fifteen mile* in length and from a quarter to a mile in breadth. There must 
have been great elasjliity in the mile of those days, for it Is only ^velve miles from the Battery to 
Spuyten-Duyvll, which is the northern extremity of the island, with a width varying from one quarter 
to two and one-half miles. New York City's greatest width (north of the Harlem River) is four and 
one half miles. The area of Manhatt.ui Island is fourteen thousand square a.res. It his a water 
Ircmlagc for shipping ol twenty-five miles in extent, exclusive of Harlem River, which is seven miles long. 



BRADLEY'S REMINISCENCES OF NEW YORK HARBOR. 



Newark Bay and Surroundings. 

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OMMERCIALLY speak 
' ing this bay is of vast 
importance to the Cilry 
of Newark and towns on 
the Passaic and Hacken- 
sack rivers, and its chan- 
nel has continually im- 
proved to keep up with 
the demand. That portion 
of the channel fabout i| 
miles long) which lies to 
the east of Elizabethport, 
N. J., and at the mouth 
of Newark Bay, origin- 
ally had a depth of only gi 
feet at mean low water, 
SET OF FLOOD TIDE IN NEWARK BAY-[See Page 12]. ^.hUe the remainder, ly- 

ing between Staten Island and New Jersey, had a depth of from 14 to 40 feet. Up to June 30th, 
1894, a short dike was constructed and a channel dredged throughout the entire extent of the improve- 
ment, 13 feet deep at mean low water, with width \arying from 31" to 350 feet. For 3000 feet in the 
vicinity of the bend at the Stake Light the width had been increased to 400 feet, with low water depths 
of from 13 to 14 feet. Up to iVlay ist, 1895, the channel at the turn around the Corner Stake Light 
and westward for a total linear distance of 1,500 feet was restored to the full width of the project 
of 1890 -400 fe;t; eastward for a distance of i.ioo feet, a width varying from 250 to 300 feet was 
secured ; an average increase in channel width of 165 feet along the entire linear distance of 2,600 feet 
dredged throughout to the full depth of the project 14 feet mean low water. The channel at this 
locality being unprotected from the drift, across the shoal flats of Newark bay forming its northerly 
bank, will require frequent dredging to maintain a width sufficient for the traffic constantly passing in 
cither direction. Up to June 7th, 1895, the channel between the bridge of the Central Railroad of 
New Jersey was opened to the full width of 200 feet for a linear distance of 2,700 feet, and a depth 
of more than lo feet at mean low water. Under the present condition of the improvement. 9.2 feet at 
mean low water is the greatest depth that can be carried over a shoal in Newark Bay, about 1,500 
feet in extent and situated one mile below the Passaic Light- Under the present condition of the 
improvements vessels drawing six feet of water can at mjan low water stage reach the wharves at 
Passaic City, the head of navigation, distant eight miles above the Centre Street Bridge, Newark. Bridge- 
building franchises are granted with the understanding that such structures are for the purpose of 
facilitating land traffic, but not to impede navigation. By a clause in the River and Harbor Appropriation 
act of 1882, it is provided that where any obstruction to navigation exists in or over any navigable 
waters of the United States, the Secretary of War may make such reasonable regulations as he may 
think fit to clear away the obstruction. It provides for the unobstructed passage not only for steamers 
and sailing vessels, but even for rafts. Railroad draw-bridges over such important navigable wateiwiys 
as Harlem River and Newark Bay should be of the most modern design an J made to be opened and 



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closed in the shortest possible time. The Central Railroad of New Jersey's bridge over Newark Bay, 
while its present draw is an improvement over the former antiquated structure, it is inadequate for the 
demands of the travelling public. The flood tide as shown in diagram (on page 9), takes an 
oblique course toward the bridge, and it is quite necessary v,hen a steamer (esfecially if it has a 
tow) is bound up the bay, that the draw be opened quickly to avoid accident It is more difficult 
and hazardous' for sailing vessels to pass through the draw, and this causes much longer detention of 
trains At Elizabelhport the mean rise and fall of tide is 2i feet; maximum, 3 feet; minimum, i4 feet. 
In Newark Bay ihe mean rise and fall of tide is 4! feet; maximum, 5J feet: minimum, 4 feet. 



On Feb. nth, 1809, Robert Fulton took out his first patent for inventions in navigation In 
steam, and on February Qth. iSii, he obtained a second patent for some requisite improvements in his 
boats and machinery. The same year he also made known his plan for '-River Ferry Steamboats." 
Many difticfifles were then connected with the ferries too and from New York City as well as elsewhere. 
Passengers were usually transported in open boats or barges, vehicles, horses and other freight in open 
lighters. When Fulton's plans became known a company was formed to establish a steam ferry from 
Cortlandt Street, New York, to Paulus Hook (now Jersey City). In that year and in 1812, two steam- 
boats—the Yoik and Jersey— were built, under Robert Fulton's supervision, for crossing the Hudson, and 
soon after one of the same description for tlie East River. They were called ''twin boats." there beiii;; 
two complete hulls united. They were sharp at both ends, so as they could cross and re-co-s witho .1 
turning. In speaking of these steamers, Fulton said: -'The present boat crosses the river, which 1- 
a mile and a half broad, in fifteen minutes ; the average time is twenty minutes. She has had in her 
at one time eight four-wheel carriages, twenty-nine horses and 100 passengers, and could have taken 
300 more." The credit of running the first steam ferryboat in the world doubtless belongs to John 
Stevens, of Hoboken, N.J., but having won the credit, he seems to have abandoned the permanent use 
of steam, and to have returned, after a short period, to the old fashioned horse-boat. On the trial trip 
of the Nassau, the first steam ferryboat too and from Brooklyn, the engineer became caught in the 
machinery and was killed. 

Towing with steamboats began on the Hudson River with the opening of the Erie Canal 
(1825), and the Henry Eckford was the first steam craft to make a special business of towing barges 
in the North River. She burst her boiler at the foot of Liberty Street in 18)9. The first regul.ir 
towboat engaged in harbor lowing was the Rufus W. King, built in 1828 by the New York Dr>' Doi:l\ 
Co., between iith and 12th Streets, East River, New York. She was legislated into existence, av 
the company could not obtain a charter for their, scheme— to repair vessels on railways— unless the\ 
provided a tug to tow all boats that might need repairing to their place. This repairing yard wa> 
thought then to be so far up-town as to be useless tor the needs of shipping without Ihe adjunii 
of a steam tug and the solicitude manifested by Ihe Government in those times for American shippin.; 
is in marked contrast to the disregard shown at the present time. The King was an ugly looking boat 
She had a square stern --like a North River sloop— and a bow as round as the full moon. Her timbers 
were of live oak, and she had very little freeboard. Length of hull, 98 feet ; beam, 22 fe;t ; depth 
of hold, 7* feet. The paddlewheels were very far forward and the boiler was abaft the engine, the 
latter being on the '' steeple " pattern, a type now nearly extinct. 

The steamboat Hendrick Hudson was launched at Wm. A. Brown's shipyard, foot of iitli 
St-cff, East River, Nrsv York, in 184s, and was at that time the largest steamboat afloat. Her 
dimensions were: length }}7 leet ; breadth over all, 68 feet; depth of hold, 10 feet. At the same yard 
the sidewherl steamer Southerner was built for the Ch.irleMon Steamship Line, which was established 
in iKj*"' bv Sp(.tlord. Til.'ston \ Co. Her engines were from the Novelty Works, then nLinaged by 



BRADLEY'S REMINISCENCES OF NEW YORK HARBOR. 



East River Entrance to New York Harbor. 



SOUNDINGS —The soundings are expressed in fathoms i 
the dottei surfaces, where they are given in U 
figures show the depths at mean low water. 
Bl'OYS - Red buoy to be left in entering on Starboard hand 
Black buoy to bs left in entering on Port hand. 
Black and Red horizontal stripes— Danger Buoy. 
Black and White perpendicular stripes— Channel 
C , N.. or S- signifies Can, Nun, or Spar. 




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Port Moms A'C*™ 




LOXG ISLAND. 
EAST RIVER AND LONG ISLAND SOUND FROM PORT MORRIS TO GREAT NECK. 



HIS entrance to New York Harbor Is destined to become of great importance to the Metropolis. 
The channel originally had many obstructions to navigation, especially at Hell Gate. But a 
^ large number of these obstacles have been removed, and up to the first of May, 1894, the 
water projecton of Hallet's Point, covering three acres, had been removed to a depth of 26-feet, 
as were also Ways Reef, Shell Drake, Scaly Rock and Diamond Reef, off Governor's Island, to the 
same depth. Pilgrim Rock and Ferry Re;f hal been reduced to a least depth of 24-feet ; Heel Top 
had been dredged to 20.5-feet; and the least depths on Frying Pan and Pot Rock were 18-feet and 
22.8-feet at mean low water, respectively ; Flood Rock and connecting reefs, covering nine acres, had 



BRADLEY'S RFMIMSCENCES OF NEW YORK HARBOR 



been broken to 3>feet. The least dipth over FlooJ Rock, Hen anJ Chickens, anj Gridiron was 20-feet 
at mean low water, and that in the channel between Flood Rock and the Mill Rocks was 18-feet 
mean low water The reef off Sunken Meadow, which originally had only 1 1 f eet over it, had been 
lowered to 14-feet mean low water, over the main reef, and to iSfeet mean low water, in the southern 
half. There are still some dangerous obstructions in East River that should be removed— among them 
the line of reefs to the southward and westward from Blackwell's Island— the Man-of-War rock, 
opposite }8th Street, being one of them Middle Ground, near the southern entrance to Little Hell Gate. 
between Sunken Meadow and Lawrence Point, has a channel on either side of it barely }50 feet wJJr 
and others. 

It has been an erroneous supposition with many that Long Island Sound begins at Sand's 
Point, while those well informed on the subject claim that the terminus of the strait known as the 
East River, should be designated by a line drawn from Willefs Point to the southeast extremity of 
Throgg's Neck (.set map). 

Ejst Chester Creek (sometimes called Hutchinson River j. \aries in width from 25 feet to 
half a milt, at high water, and empties into East Chester Bay, which is twenty miles by water from the 
Battery. Mean rise of tide at the mouth of the Creek is 7.1 feet. Three draw bridges cross this stream. 
About li miles from its mouth is Town Dock, the principal landing. The main business part of the 
City of Mount Vernon is about two miles from Town Dock. From Long Island Sound to a point 
3,o3D feit above Lackwood's there is a channel of nine fest in dei'th at mean high water and two feet at 
mean low water. The width of the channel is 100 feet, e.xcept between Town Dock and Lockwood's, 
a distance of about half a mile. Little Neck Bay— mean rise and fall of tide 7-7 f«t ; max. 8.9 
feet; min. 6 feet. 

Flushing Bay, fourteen miles from the Battery, is a broad shallow body of water from one 
to two miles wide and has a soft mud bottom which is nearly level. The mean rise of tide is 7 i feet 
The channel is ico feet wide and about 6 feet deep at mean low water In 1894 the arrival and 
departure of vessels were 305 steamers, 200 sailing vessels and 60 barges. 



Distances and Bearings. 

MILKS. BKARIMIS. 

Riker's Island Light to Whitestone yi .... E. i S. 

Whitestone Light to Fort Schuyler Light Buoy ... rj .... E. J S. 

Fort Schuyler Light (Buoy) to Stepping Stones Light. \i .... N. E. J N. 

Stepping Stones Light to Execution Rocks Light . . 3 J .... N. E. i N. 

Stepping Stones Light to Throgg's Neck Light ... li! .... S. W. 3 S- 

Throgg's Neck Light to North Brothers' Light ... 5 .... W. J N. 

Execution Rocks Light to Sand's Point Light .... | .... S. by E. J E. 

Execution Rocks Light to Great Captain's Island Light 81 .... N. E. 1 E. 

Execution Recks Light lo Eaton's Neck Light ... 16 .... E. J N. 



On Novemlier 25111, 1780, the British frigate Hussar, one of England's noblest ships, struJ^ 
Pot Rock, nearly opposite the upper extremity of Randall's Island, and sunk with all on board— about 
150 souls. She had in safe keeping about f 5,000,000 in gold coin. This unfortunate vessel was never 
found neither was her precious cargo. 

The steamer Novelty was built in 1830 and made her first trip from New York lo Albany on 
June 80, i8j0, burning aiilhracile co,il, being the first steamer to use it for fuel. Ihis was the commence- 
ment of a new era in ste.imboatiiig. 

In 1827 there were twenty-four ships plying between the ports ol New York .iiid Liverpool. 
The average speed of these vessels was a days eastward and 29 days westward. 



BRADLEY'S REMINISCENCES OF NEW YORK H.\RBOR. 



Long Island Sound 

FROM GREAT NECK TO MATINICOCK POINT. 



he figure 
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Port hand 
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'S are expressed 
ere they are gi 
mean low water 
,n entering on S 
ft in entering on 
ontal stripes -D 
rpendlcular strip 
s Can, NunorS 


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Black 1 uo 
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Black and 
C.N. or 





MANHAS5ET B\t i. 

(Cow Bay), Mean rise a.id Mott»] 

fall of tide 7.7 feet ; max., 8.q feet ; 
minimum, 6.4 feet. 5 

Hemstead Harbor— Mean rise and z 
fall of tide, :7.7 feet ; max., 8.9 feet ; '% 
inin., 6.4 feet. 0; 




Distances on Long Island Sound from the Battery. 



College Point 11 

Flushing 13 

Whitestone 13 

Throgg's Neck 16 

Great Neck 18 

City Island 19 

Glen Island 22 

Sand's Point 22 

Glen Cove 23 

New Rochelle 23 

Mamaroneck 24 

Port Chester 27 

Captain's Island 28 



Greenwich 30 

Roslyn 30 

Stamford 35 

Eaton's Neck 38 

Huntington 40 

Wilson Point 40 

South Norwalk 42 

Port Jefferson 65 

Bridgeport 65 

New Haven 76 

Saybrook Point .... 100 

Stonington 120 

Greenport 125 



Shelter Island . . . , . 130 

Norwich 133 

Sag Harbor 140 

New London 120 

Block Island 15° 

Hartford 158 

Newport 165 

Fall River 17° 

Providence 180 

New Bedford 187 

Boston 250 

Portland, Me 325 



BRADLEY'S REMINESCENCES OF NEW YORK HARBOR. 



Long Island Sound, from oak neck to eaton-s neck. 



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BRADLEY'S REMINISCENCES OF NEW YORK HARBOR. 



The Boundary Line Between New York 
AND New Jersey. 



^ 



HOBOKE 




HE accompanying diagram shows the 
boundary line between New York and 
New Jersey lands under water, from 
Romer Beacon, in Raritan Bay, to 

Hastings and Piermont on the Hudson River. 

Before the Joint Boundary Commission located 

this line on October 12th, 1887, there were 

many disputes— in cases attended by blood- 
shed—among oyster planters, dredgers and 

others. The Raritan Bay boundary was de- 
termined by a series of straight lines, based 

upon compromises of the commercial interests 

of both states concerned, and proved a just 

and satisfactory division, but great difficulty 

was experienced in agreeing upon the line 

through New York Bay. The Boundary in 

the Arthur Kill or Staten Island Sound and 

the Kill Von Kull was also rather difficult ^>'>' 

of adjustment, on account, as was the case in 

New York Bay, of the presence of certain 

islands which cropped up in the way. The 

New York Commissioners were very reluctant 

to let Bedloe's or Liberty and Ellis Islands 

go over to the Jersey side of the line through 

the bay, but were bound hand and foot by a decision of the New York Court of Appeals, which, 

Interpreting the treaty of i8j4 between New Jersey and New York concerning the lands under water 

question, declared that the phase " the middle of the water," which appeared in the treaty meant the 

centre or thread of the channel. However, New York held its own in Arthur Kill, Kill Von Kull 

and the Hudson River. The boundary in Arthur Kill is laid down to the west of Pratt's Island, 

which leaves that picturesque bit of land in New York waters, and the line through Newark Bay 

and Kill Von Kull to the upper bay runs past the Corner Stake Lighthouse and Shooter's Island in 

such a way as also to bring them within New York's jurisdiction. 



Sandy Hook to Sandy Hook Lightship, 6i miles. Sandy Hook Lightship to Fire Island, 
thirty miles. Sandy Hook Lightship to Shinicock, 67 miles. 

The Erie Canal was opened to navigation in the Autumn of 1825, to the great rejoicings of 
the citizens of New York. 

The first steamer to dare the storm of ocean was the Phoenix, built by Col. John Stevens, 
of Hohoken, in 1807. She went from New York to Philadelphia, Pa. 

In i854 the Pacific Mail S. S. Line employed a fleet of twelve first-class steamers; the Atlantic 
and Pacific line, five ; Roberts California line, three ; there w^re five coastwise lines, embracing thirteen 
vessels; at the same period there were also eleven foreign lines with fifty-five vessels, running from 
New York City. 



BRADLEY'S REMINISCENCES OF NEW YORK HARBOR. 



Ferries from New York City 
AND Staten 

NORTH RIVER. 

HOBOKEN— From Barclay St. to Newark St., Hobo- 
ken. Also from Christopher St. to Newark St., 
Hoboken. Depot of the Del., Lack. & West- 
ern R. R. A line of street cars runs from Chris- 
topher to across town to East 23rd St. Ferry. 

FOURTEENTH ST. FERRY-From West 14th St. 
to 14th St. Hoboken. 

DESBROSSES ST. FERRY— Pennsylvania R. R. ; 
New York, Susquehanna and Wilkes-Barre 
and Eastern Railroads ; Lehigh Vallev R.R. A 
line of street cars runs from foot of Liberty St. 
to across town to Grand St. Ferries. 

LIBERTY St. ferry, to Communipaw— Centra] 
R. R. of New Jersey Depot ; Royal Blue Line, 
NY., Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington; 
Long Branch R. R. : Freehold and Atlantic 
Highlands R. R. ; Allentown Line; N. Y. and 
Newark R. R. 

CORTLANDT St. Ferry— Pennsylvania R. R. ; 
New Jersey, Susquehanna and Western and 
Wilkes-Barre and Eastern Railroads; Lehigh 
Valley R. R. A line of street cars runs from 
foot of Liberty St. to across town to Grand St. 
ferries. 

Pavonia Ferry— From Chambers St. to Pavonia 
Avenue, Jersey City. Depot of New York, 
Lake Erie, and Western R. R. ; New Jersey 
and New York R. R. ; Northern of New Jersey 
R. R. : New York and Greenwood Lake R. R. 
A line of street cars runs from foot of Chambers 
Street to E. 23rd Street Ferry. A line of cars 
also runs to Roosevelt Street Ferry, E. R. 

FERRY FROM WEST i3thST.-To Bay St, Jersey 
City. A line of street cars runs from foot of W. 
23rd Street to E. 23rd Street Ferry. 

WEST 23rd STREET FERRY— To Pavonia Avenue, 
Jersey City. Soon as ferryboats now under 
construction are completed, there will be a line 
from 23rd Street to Pennsylvania R. R. Depot, 
Jersey City. I 

FORTY-SECOND STREET FERRY— From W. 42nd 
Street to Weehawken. Depot of N. Y., Ont. 
and W. K. R. West Shore. A line of street cars 
runs from W 42nd St. to East )4th St. Ferry. 

WEST SHORE FERRY— From foot of Franklin St. 
to Weeh.iwken. Depot of N. Y , O. and W. 
R. R., West Shore. 

FORT LEE FERRY-From West 13th Street and 
W. 1 30th Streets. 

ANNEX FERRIES. 

From N. Y.. Lake Erie and W R. R. at Pavonia 
Ferry, to Ccrtral R. R. of New Jersey, thence 
to Fulton Street, Brooklyn. 

From Penn H. R. Depot, Jersey City, to Fulton St. 
Brooklyn. 



TO Brooklyn. Jersey City 
Island. 

EAST RIVER. 
BEDLOES ISLAND-From the Battery. 
STATEN ISLAND FERRY-Whitehall Street to St. 

George. 
ELLIS ISLAND-From Whitehall Street. 
GOVERNOR'S ISLAND— From Whitehall Street. 

South Brooklyn FERRY-From Pier 2 to 39th 

Street, S. Brooklyn. 
Hamilton ferry— Whitehall Street to Hamilton 

Avenue, Brooklyn. 
SOUTH FERRY— Whitehall Street to Atlantic 

Avenue, Brooklyn. 
Wall Street Ferry— Wall Street to Montague 

Street, Brooklyn. 
FULTON Ferry— Fulton Street to Fulton Street, 

Brooklyn. A line of street cars runs from foot 

of Fulton Street, New York, to W. 23rd Street 

Ferry and one to Cortlandt Street. 
ROOSEVELT Street FERRY-From Roosevelt 

Street to Broadway, Williamsburg. A line of 

street cars runs from foot of Roosevelt Street 

to Pavonia Ferry, N. R. 
Catherine Street FERRY-From Catherine 

Slip to Main Street, Brooklyn. 
GRAND STREET FERRY-From Grand Street to 

Grand Street and Broadway, Williamsburg. A 

line of street cars runs from foot Grand Street, 

New York to Desbrosses Street Ferry and one 

to Cortlandt Street Ferry. 
GREENPOINT FERRY-From E. loth and 23rd 

Streets to Greenpoint Avenue, Williamsburg. 
Houston street FERRY-From Houston Street 

to Grand Street, Williamsburg. 
TWENTY-THIRD STREET FERRY— 23rd Street to 

Broadway, Williamsburg. A line of street cars 

runs to Pavonia Ferry and one to W- 23rd St. 

Ferry. 
LONG ISLAND City— (L. I. R.R.) From James' 

Slip to Hunter's Point. 
HUNTER'S Point FERRY-From E. 7th Street and 

E. 34th Street. A line of cars runs to W. 42nd 

Street Ferry. 
WARD'S ISLAND-From E. 2rith Street and E. 

115th Street. 
ASTORIA FERRY From E g2nd Street. 
BLACKWELL'S ISLAND— From E. 26th Street. E. 

52nd and E. T^ih Streets. 

College Point— From E. 99th Street. 

Hart's island— From E. 26th Street. 
Randall's island- From E. ?(\\\ sired .md E. 
I2cth Street. 



BRADLEY'3 REMINISCENCES OF NEW YORK HARBOR. 



STEAMSHIP ROUTES 



NEW YORK TO LIVERPOOL. 







NORTH 


TRACK. 


SOUTH TRACK. 






T 


nfnl nkl.-inre 


Tolal Distance 






from New York 


from 


New York 






Miles. 


Miles. 


Miles. 


Miles. 


New York 


to Sandy Hook 


I5i 


I5i 


15+ 


I5i 


Sandv Hook - 


" Sandy Hook Lighship 


6^ 


22 


6i 


22 


Sand Hook- Lightship - 


" Fire Island 


30 


52 


30 


52 


Fire Island 


" The Fastnet - 


2,726 


2,778 


2,8.3 


2,865 


The Fastnet 


" The Old Head of Kinsale 


42 


2,820 


42 


2,907 


The Old Head of Kinsale - 


" Queenstovvn (Roche's Point) 


16 


2,836 


16 


2,923 


Queenstovvn (Roche's Point i 


" Ballycotton 


II 


2.847 


II 


2,934 


Ballycotton 


" Conningbeg Lightship 


5oi 


2,897^ 


50i 


2984* 


Conningheg Lightship - 


" Tuskar 


19 


2,9l6J: 


19 


3,oo3i 


Tuskar 


'■ Skerries 


94 


3,oioi 


94 


3,097i 


Skerries - 


" Bar Lightship 


50 


3,o6oi 


50 


3,l47i 


Bar Lightship 


" Liverpool (Rock LighO 




3,07ii 


" 


3,i58i 


NEW 


^ YORK AND VARIOUS POINTS. 






New York 


to Fire Island 


52 


52 


52 


52 


Fire Island - ' - 


,, / Bishop's Rock Lighthouse \ 
\ (Scilly Isles, off Cornwall, W) / 


2,860 


2,912 


2,939 


2,991 


Bishop's Rock Lighthouse 


'' Falmouth - 


67 


2,979 


67 


3,058 




" Plymouth 


96 


3,008 


96 


3,087 




" Needles (Isle of Wight) - 


194 


3,106 


194 


3,185 


" " " 


" Southampton - 


215 


3.127 


2,15 


3,206 


" 


" Cowes, (Isle of Wight) - 


2c8 


3,120 


208 


3,>99 




" Havre - - - . 


255 


3,167 


255 


3.246 


New York 


" Milford Haven 




2,958 




3,041 




" Liverpool 




3,°7ii 




3,i58i 




BOSTON TO LIVERPOOL. 








Boston - 


to Boston Outer Light 


8| 


8^ 


8i 


84^ 


Boston Outer Light - 


" Fastnet - 


2,588 


2,596* 


2,684 


2,6924 


Fastnet 


" Queenstown (Roche's Point) 


58 


2,654f 


58 


2,75°i 


Queenstown (Roche's Point) 


" Liverpool (Rock Light) 


235i 


2,890 


23 5i 


2,986 



In i8i2 a plan to propel vessels without steam was projected in Niw York, to completely 
overtnrn the act of the legislature granted to Fulton, who was greatly annoyed at first over the new 
device, which was nothing less than to propel the vessel by springs and pendulum. The boat, the 
wheels of which revolved with great rapidity when on the stocks, stood motionless when she was in 
the water. 

The Brooklyn Ferry was established in the early colonial days and consisted of a flat boat 
worked by sweeps. 

Elias Desbrosses, from whom Desbrosses Street, New York City, derived its name, was 
alderman of the '' East Ward" in 1767. 

Peace with Great Britain was proclaimed by Congress in April, 1783, and the City of Ne\v 
York was evacuated by the hostile forces on Nov. 26th, following. 

The first packet to run between Ne\y York an4 Staten Island was in 1755. 



BRADLEV'S REMINISCENCES OF NEW YORK HARBOR. 



WATER-FRONT DIRECTORY. 

NEW YORK CITV.-NORTH RIX'ER 



PIERS. NOTE.— Tho Picr» ihat have received their New Numbers are given logeiher with Ihc Old. Tlie New numbeni are on the 

Nt-w ul IJ oulsifle and the old on the iiwide in margin. 

Battery— Public Aquarium (Old Castle Garden) ; City Fire Boat. 
Pier A— Dock Department ; Police Boat. 
I Iron Steamboat Co., steamers for Coney Island; J. E. Kerr's Jamaica Ste-imsiiip Line (ireight 

and passengers) ; office, 41 Beaver Street. 

1 Pennsylvania R. R freight station, also bulkhead to Pier 2. 

2 Lehigh Valley R. R. freight station ; also bulkhead bet. piers 2 and ). Local freight received here. 

3 Lehigh Valley R. R. (freight) ; also bulkheaJ bet. piers j; and 4. 

4 P'.nnsylvania R. R. freight station, also bulkhead bet. piers 4 and 5. 
5 

B. T. Babbett's coal receiving station— Bulkhead bet. piers 5 and 6. 

6 iV^unson Steamship Line to Cuba and Mexico — lower side of pier (freight only) ; oftke, 80 Wall 

Street ; Steam Heating Co. receive coal. 
New Brunswick and Perth Amboy passenger and freight line — upper side of pier ; Headquarters for 

Barrett's Towing Line. 
New York and Baltimore Transportation Line (freight only). 

7 New York and Baltimore Transportation Line (freight only) ; also bulkhead bet. piers 7 and 8. 

7 8 Central R. R. of N. J freight station ; Sandy Hook and Long Branch steamers. 

8 9 Cromwell Steamship Line for New Orleans ; also bulkhead on lower side of pier. 

9 10 " '• " " " " " 
1 1 Metropolitan Steamship Line for Boston. 

Central R. R. of N. J. (freight only) ; Peipher Fast Freight Line for Harrisburg. Pa. 

10 12 

13 Central R. R. of New Jersey (freight only). 

11 14 ) 

Liberty Street Ferry to Communipaw— Central R. R. of New Jersey depot ; Royal Blue Line. 
NewYork, Philadelphia, Baltimore ^Washington ; Long Branch R.R.; Freehold& Atlantic High- 
lands R. R.; Allentown Line: New York and Newark R. R.; Baltimore and Ohio R. R. 
CORTLANDT Street FERRY.-Pennsylvanla R. R.; New York. Susquehanna and VVilkes Barre 
and Eastern Railroads ; Lehigh Valley Railroad. 
13 2o Starin's New Haven Line (passengers and freight) ; Steamers to Glen Island ; Delaware and Lack- 
awanna R. R. freight depot, also occupy part of bulkhead bet. piers 13 and 14 ; upper part 
of bulkhead by the American Line. 

14 -1 American Steamship Line to Southampton ; olTice, 6 Bowling (jreen ; bulkhead bet. piers i4and 15., 

American Line freight, 

15 21 Red Star Steamship Line (American Line) to Antwerp : oflice. 6 Bowling Green. 

H(JBOKEN FERRY.— Delaware, Lackawanna and Western R. R. ; Westcott E.xpress. 
N. Y. Central and Hudson River R. R. freight.- Bulkhead from ferry to Fall River I inr. 
18 28 Fall River Line (Old Colony Steamboat Co.) for Boston. 



19 2>; 



PAVONIA FERRY.-New York. Lake Erie and Western R R. ; New Jersey and New York R. R.. 
bet. N. Y. City and Haverstraw ; Northern Railroad of New Jersey and Piermont Branch ; 
New York and Greenwood Lake R ilro.id ; Newark Branch R. R. to Waldwick, via iNewark. 

New York Lake Erie and Western Railrmd (freight) ; also bet. piers 23 and 21. 

Bulkhead bet. piers 21 and 22 ; C. Mulford & Co.. wholesale and retail ice depot. 

Baltimore and Ohio Railro.id, Continental Line (freight only) ; also bulkhead above. 

WEST SHORE FERRY to Weehawken. 

West Shore Raliro id (New York, Ontario and Western) Franklin Street freight station; also bulk- 
head above. 

I l>mer R.imsdell Newbiir,;h Line— passengers and freight ; Benj. Franklin Line for Yonkers -pas- 
sengers and freight; Poughkeepsle Transportation Line-passengers and freight : Sing Sing 
Line— passengers and freight ; Merchants' Steamboat Co. for Red Bank, Long Branch, High- 
lands and Seabright. Stephens and Gondii's Newark Freight Line 
utiiern Pacific Steamship Co. (Morgan Line.) 



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BKADLEYS REMINISCENCES OF NEW YORK HARBOR. 



WATER FRONT DlRECTORY-Con//„urd, 

From N. Moore to Gansevoort Street. 
PIERS. 

NKU Oil) 

26 Old Dominion Steamship Co. for Old Point Comfort, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Pinner's Point, Newport 

News, Petersburg and Richmond, Va. 

27 58 ] 

28 ■ Pennsylvania Railroad (Empire Line and Union Line, freight.) 

29 39 J 

30 Albany Day Line steamers ; IMary Powell for Rondout. 

DeSBROSSES Street Ferry to Jersey City— Pennsylvania Railroad Depot. 
32 40 -Norwich Line for Boston. 
35 41 Peoples' (night) Line for Albany ; Albany Potatoe Market. 

42 General Merchandise. 
34 
35 



j Ocean Steamship Co., (Savannah Line). 

36 Providence and Stonnington S. S. Co. Ba.xter Wrecking Co., oflice, 308 West Street. 

37 Southern Pacific Steamship Co., (Morgan Line). 

38 White Star Steamship Line, (cargo and live stock steamers). 
3g National Steamship Line. 

40 Cunard Steamship Co., Vernon H. Brown & Co., Agents, 4 Bowling Green. 

4' Delaware, Lacka.vaiina and Western Railroad Co. (freight station). S. Ransom, ste.iin litter, 357 

West Street. 

Entrance to uncompleted Hudson River Tunnel. 

42 CampaKnie General Trans- Atlantique Steamship Line to Havre; A. F. Forget, Ag't, j Bowling Green. 

43 Catskill Line ; Saugertles Line. 

Christopher Street Ferry to Hoboken— Delaware, Lackawanna and Western R. R. Depot. 
^^ j White Star Steamship Line (passengers and freight). 

4'J Kingston Steamboat Line : Citizens' (Troy) Line steamboats : Nyack Steamboat Line. Vierow's 

Towing Line. 
47 Quebec Steambhip Line, Bermuda and West Indies; A. E. Outerbridge & Co., Agents, 39 Broadwav. 

NO'l'K.^Afc tltJH publication goCA Uj ])rc»». prcpaniliun^ are being made lor building i^ix new pier% tKlwecn Chartet and 

l>egiiining al Wcftl. Thtt islo make room tor Hlcamthip lincit. In con&c^|uence, the following present occupanl^i bet 

Oyster Market. 

W. nth Steeet -Clark and Wilkins, wood ; Van Tasiel's grain elevator ; Knickerbocker Ice Co. 
Bank Street— David S. Brown & Co., Satin Gloss Soap; M. J. & M. Blake, iron and steel scraps. 
Bethune Street— Cornell Steamboat Co. ; Ridgewood Ice Co. 

Between Bethune .ind W- 12th Street— H. P. Campbell & Co. 
W. i2th and Jane Streets Bonded and Free Stores. 
Jane Street— Morton's Peekskill Passenger and Freight Line; Tarrytown Passenger and Freight 

Line ; steamers for Long Branch, Elberon, Pleasure Bay. 
Horatio Street— National Ice Co. 
Gansevoort Street (Pier 56, old No.) -Lehigh Valley R. R., freight only. 



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From Gansevoort to 35th Street. 

Between Gan5evoort anJ Bloomtleld Streets- 
West Washington Market; Quartermaster's Department ; steamer Magenta for Keyport, passenger and freight. 
Bloomfield Street - Fireboat New Yorker. 

Between Bloomfield and Little 12th Streets (Pier 59, old No.)— Cedar Hill Ice Co. 
W. 13th Street-FERRV TO BAY STREET, Jersey City. 

Stfamer for Fort Lee, Pleasant Valley, Edgewater and Shady Side (freight only) ; Colyer Printing 

Co (Delamater'sold Works). 
W. 14th Street -R. J. Dean and Co., U. S. Bonded Warehouse. 

FOURTEENTH STREET FERRY to Hoboken. 
W. 15th Street— Centra! R. R. of New Jersey (freight only) : Peipher Fast Freight Line for Harrisburg. Va. 
W. i6lh Street -Hudson Plasterboard Co. 
W. 17th Street-Baltimore and Ohio R. R. (Continental Line), freight only. Gas Works. 

Between 17th and 18th Streets— Gas Works ; General Merchandise. 
W. 18th Street— General Merchandise. 

Between i8ih and igth Streets— D. C. Newall's Saw Mill. 

Between 19th and 20th Streets— M. J. Northrup, lumber inspector. 
W 20th Street— Knickerbocker Ice Co.'s shipyard ; general merchandise pier. 

Between 20th and 21st Streets— Knickerbocker Ice Co. 
W. 21st Street Pier— Allan-State Steamship Line, Austin, Baldwin & Co., agents, 53 Broadway. 

Between 21st and 22d Streets John McClave, hardwood lumber; John McClave & Sons, mfg. Col- 
onial Bicycles ; Union Ice Co. ; E. H. Ogden & Co., lumber. 
W. 22d Street Pier— Albany Day Line and steamer Chrystenah stop here ; Rockaway and Coney Island steam- 
ers leave here. 
W. 23d Street— PA VONIA FERRY to Jersey City. 

PENNSVLVANIA R. R. Ferry (new line to begin in near future). 
Pier 54— W. 24th Street— Anchor Steamship Co., New York and Glasgow ; Henderson Bros., agents. 7 Bowling 

Green. 
Pier 55— W. J5th Street— Atlas Mail Steamship Line to West Indies ; Pim, Fonvard & Kellock, agents, 24 

State Street ; Westervliet Ice Co. 

Between 25th and 26th Streets - Ichabold T. Williams, mahogany, pine and hardwood. 
Pier 56— VV. 26th Street— Arrow Steamship Line to Leith, Scotland. Bristol City Steamship Line to Bristol. 

Bet\\een 26th and 27th Streets— Cornell Iron Works. 
Pier 37— Between 27th and 28th Streets— Columbian Steamship Line (Panama R. R. Co.) Central Stores. 
Pier 58— 28th Street— Delaware, Lackawanna & Western R. R. Co. ; TheStarin Transportation Line (freight). 
Pier 59— W. 29th Street— Atlantic Transport Line for London. New York Shipping Co , agents, 4 Broadway. 
Pier 60— W. )oth Street Stokes & Thedford's coal elevators and lumber yard. 
Pier 61— W. jist Street— N. Y. Central and Hudson River Railroad (freight). 
Pier 62-W. 32d Street- 
Pier 63-\V. 3jd Street— " " " " 
W. )4th Street Pier— Tripp's grain elevator : general merchandise ; steamer Al. Foster for Fishing Banks. 

Behveen 34th and 35th Streets— Merchants' Union Ice Co. ; Manhattan Market. 
W. 35th Street Pier Rogers & Curran, coal. 

Between 35th and 36th Streets— New York, Ontario & Western R. R. float- ship freight onlv. 



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W. 56th Street— New York, Ontario and Western Railroad slips (freight only) 
W. ):th Street (Pier 67)— Pennsylvania Railroad (freight station). 

Between 37th and 38th Streets— New York. Susquehanna and Western Railroad (freight only). 
W. 38th Street Pier Marble shipped from here ; North River Stock Yards. 
W. j()tli Street— General merchandise. 

W. 40th Street Pier— Citizen's (loal Co. ; slaughter houses: general merchandise. 
W. 4ist Street— Consolidated Gas Co. 

W. 42d Street— FERRY TO WEEHAWKEN.— Horse cars to E. 34th. Grand and Houston Street ferries. 
W. 45d Street Pier— Knickerbocker Ice Co. ; general m;rchandise. Bulkhead -E. S. Higgins & Co., carpet 

manufactory. 
W. 43d and 44th Streets— Consolidated Gas Co. 
W. 4sth Street— Consolidated Gas Company. 
W 46th Street Pier Robert Gordon's coal yard. 
W. 47th Street Pier— D. Grieme's coal pockets ; general merchandise. 
W. 48tli Street Pier (jeneral merchandise; H. E. Stevens & Son, lumbert 
W. 4Qth Street Pier— General merchandise- 
W. 50th Street Pier- 
W. 51st Street Pier - 
W. 52d Street Pier— Brick Market. 
W. 53d Street Pier— General merchandise. 

Between 54th and 55lh Streets. — Stokes & Thedford's coal elevator. 
W. 5?h Street Pier— General merchandise ; E. C Clifford & Co., ice: Western Union Telegraph crossing. 
W 56th Street Pier General merchandise. 

Between 56th and 57th Streets— Crimmins Asphalt Works. 
W. 57th Street Pier- Dock Department yards. 
W. 58th Street Pier— Eastman's Slaughter House 
W. 59th Street— 

W. 60th to 72d Streets New York Central & Hudson River Railroad, freight. 
W. 76th to 86th Streets— Building materials. 
W. g6th Street— Moquin, Offerman & Helssenbuttle, coal. 



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WATER-FRONT DIRECTORY. 

^lERS. H.AST R1\'£R — From Battery to Pier 39. 

Battery Park Pier— BEDLOE'S Island Ferry ; Excursion steamers for Rockaway.etc, land here. 
Barge Oftke—U. S. Shipping Commissioner; Emigrant Free Labar Bureau. 

ELLIS ISLAND FERRY. Bureau of Immigration ; United Press Ship News office : U. S. Marine Hos- 
pital Office. 
GOVERNORS ISLAND FERRY.— U. S. E.xpress Co.'s branch office ; Baltimore and Ohio Express. 
Staten ISLAND FERRY. -Rapid Transit R. R. 
FERRY TO 6;th STREET, S. Brooklyn. 
Haamlton Ferry —To Hamilton Avenue, South Brooklyn. 
SOUTH FERRY.— To Atlantic Avenue, South Brooklyn. 
Ferry to 3t;TH Street, South Brooklyn. 
J Quartermaster's Department; general merchandise- 

4 General Merchandise- 
Between Piers 4 and 5— New York Central and H. R. R. f freight). 

5 Gen-.ral Merchandise. Canal Boat District. 

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8 New York. Lake Erie and Western R. R. (freight). 

9 Ocean sailing vessels ; line to Melbourne and Sydney, Australia. 

10 Campania 1 ransatlantic Espanola Steamship Line for Havana (passengers and freight). J. M- 

Geballos & Co. agents. 80 Wall Street. 

11 Ocean sailing vessels; general merchandise. 

12 New York and Haiti Packet Line, Ebel & Co., 35 Old S!ip- 

13 Dearborn's Line to San Francisco, Cal : south side— general merchandise ves-els. 

14 Benner's Line (sailing vessels) for Key West and Tampa ; N. A. Benner & Co., 10 OIJ Slip. Other 

sailing vessels. 

15 Wm. P. CIvde & Co 's West India Steamship Line for Santo Domingo, Haiti and Turk's Island- 

Wall Street ferry. 

16 New YorK and Cuba Steamship Co. ; J. E. Ward & Co., agents, 113 Wall Street. 
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18 Merchants' Trans Co. (Canal line), between New York and Trenton ; New York and Norwich Propeller 

Co., freight ; Perth Amboy and Elizabethnort steamer Meta ; Merchants' Express Trans. Co. for 
Newark; Sutton Line, (sailing ships) for Lower California. 

19 Sutton's Line (sailing ships) for San Francisco, Cal , south side of pier. North side of pier— Malloi\ 

Steamship Line tor Texas, Galveston and Key West. 

20 Mallory Steamship Line for Texas. G.ilveslon ;inj Kev West. 

21 '• " " 

Fulton Ferry- 

22 Harlem Steamboat Line. 

Fulton market. 

23 Norwalk Freight Line; Boyer's Flushing and College Point Freight Line. 

OYSTER Market. 

24 Hartford and New York Transportation Co., passengers and freight ; Glen Cove steamers ; Northport 

steamers. 

25 Hartford Freight Line, south side; New Haven Steamboat Line, north side. 

26 Monlauk Steamboat Co. 

27 Baltimore and Ohio R. R- (Continental Line), freight. 

Between piers 27 and 28— Alfred Barber's steam coal bolster, office 377 Water Street. 

28 Clyde's Steamship Service- — New York, Charleston, Florida and Wilmington Lines ; W. P. Clyde & 

Co., agents, 5 Bowling Green. 

29 Clyde's Steamship Service. -New York, Charleston, Florida and Wilmington Lines : W- P. Clyde i 

Co.. agents, 5 Bowling Green. 

FERRY TO BROADWAY, Brooklyn, E. D- 

Long Island Express--recei\ ing station. 

LONG ISLAND RAILROAD FERRY to Long Island City. 
32 Long Island Railro.id Freight Depot. 
34 Clyde's PhUadelphia Daily Line. 

CATHARINE FERRY- 
3? Unoccupied- 

36 Central Vermont Railroad -Steamers for New London (freight.) 

37 Ocean sailing vessels ; general merchandise. 

38 M line Steamship Line to all point-! In Maine, New Brunswick anJ Canada. 
J9 Bridgeport Sleamhnat Line ; passengers and freight. 

Screw Dock ; Epi>copal Floating Chapel for seamen. 



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I'Vom Pier 41 to E. 4th Street Pier. 



40 New Bedford Steamship Line (Old Colony Steamboat Co.) 

41 North and East River Stenmboat Co. for Stamford, Ct. (passengers and freight). Steamer Port Chester 

for Oyster Bay ; Steamer for Huntington, L.I., passengers and freight. Steamer Maid of Kent for 
Greenwich Conn., passengers and freight ; Steamer Gtenville for Port Chester. 
Sectional Docks— Baker & Williams, storage ; Elliott F. Diiggs & Co., storage ; Greenlle. Wyatt 
JScCo.. machinists and blacksmiths; New York Floating Dry Dock and Repair Go.'s oftke ; 
Ridgevsood Ice Co. 

43 Marl.et sloops for Southport and Westport ; steamer for Mount Vernon, freight. 

44 General merchandise. 

45 New York, New Ha\en & Hartford Railroad Co. (Fast Freight Line). 
46 

Between Piers 46 and 47 — Huntington L. I., market sloops. 

47 General merchandise : Ocean sailing vessels. 

Between Piers 47 and 48— Wm. Muhlenberg's coal boats discharge ; oflice, 282 South Street. Mason 
Supply Co. ; oftke, 284 South Street. 

48 (jeneral merchandise. 

Between Piers 4S and 49— W. A. Winne, Anchor Ice Co. 

49 Clyde Steamship Line to Wilmington, N. C. and Georgetown, S. C. : Wm. P. Clyde & Co.. Agents, 

5 Bowling Green. 
Between Piers 49 and 50— Nesmilh Bros' Stores ; The Tre.idwell & Harris Baking C.a. 
30 New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Freight Depot. Fast Freight Line for Boston and the 
East. Josiah Macy's Sons Storage. 

51 N Y., N H. & H. R. R., freight ; D. M. Nichol's boiler works. 
Gouverneur Hospital. 

52 N. Y.. N. H. & H. R. R freight; Jas. Tregarthen Son & Co.'s dry dock; Herring Safe Works : 

Duryea's Starch Works ; John Simmons Co. iron pipe and fittings. 
5J John W. Sullivan's Machine Works; H. D. Mould, Rockland Lake Ice. 
CoRLEAR's Park. 

Entire Bulkhead to Corlears Street— General merchandise. 

Corlears St.— Tabor & Co.'s marhleyards ; Coe's warehouses— occupied by Lawrence, Son & (jerrish. 
East Street— John Rosenfeld's Sons Dispatch Line (sailing vessels) for San Francisco, Cal. 

55 Grand Street —Fire Boat Wm. F. Havemeyer. 

GRAND STREET FERRIES to Grand Street and Broadway. Brooklyn, F. D. 
Wm. N Lutye's cooperage ; H. Hermann, hardwood lumber. 

56 General merchandise : Dannat & Pell, lumber. 
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58 General merchandise ; Carll Smith's Sons ; H. Hermann, lumber ; Burns Bros., coal bolster, oftke. 

25 East Street ; Knickerbocker Ice Co. ; Walter Heywood Chair Co. 
50 General merchandise. 

60 (jeneral merchandise; Murtagh & McCarthy (successors to Klots Bros.) building material. 
Etzel & Son, coal pockets ; Hawley Bo.\ and Lumber Co., oflice. 40 Gold Street. 

61 Jas Shewan's dry docks ; Rockland Lake Ice Co.; Hudson River Ice Co; Hencken & Co "s uial 

pockets. 
Between Stanton and Houston Streets American Desk Manufactory ; B. Keischer & Sons; Anderson 

Pressed Brick Co. ; J. Rayner, cabinet wood. 
llnt'STON STREET FERRY to Grand Street, Brooklyn. E. D. 

> Hodson Co., hardwoods; Crawford M.i.xweH's Italian and American m.irbleyard. 

I'icr E.xcursion boats land here; A M. Todd & Co., lumber and timber; Rheinfrank &: Co., 
mI and wood. 
.It ith Mrc-ct Pier General merchandise ; Hencken -V Co., coal and wood; Jas. Fagan, lumber. 



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From E ^nl Street to E. 25th Street. 

E. 5th Street— M. J. Saulpaugh's Sons, lumber and timber ; John H. Monteath & Co., mahogany and rosewood : 

Meyer Denkes & Hoerig, coal : Constantine's storage for timoir; Stuglotz's Mustard Mills. 
E. 6lh Street Pier General merchandise; E. D. Albro & Co., foreign and domestic hardwoods; Bonnean & 

Fleming, mahogany cabinet woods and veneers. 
E. 7th Street Pier General merchandise ; Willard Hawes & Co., timber; Constantine & Co., timber storage; 

Mason & Co., Ltd.; Morgan -V McGovern's dry dock and ship yard. 
E. 8th Street Pier— General merchandise; Doernberg & Goodman, (Metropolitan Box Factory ; Willard Hawes, 

log yard ; C. W. Dodman, coal ; F- A. Mulgrew, rosewood and mahogany saw mill ; Jacob Bros., piano 

manufacturers. 
E. 9th Street Pier— General merchandise; Morgan Iron Works; Wm. Rowland's boat works- 

EAST loTH Street ferry to Greenpoint. 

Morgan Iron Works ; Wm. E. Uptegrove & Co.. mahogany veneers. 
E. nth Street Pier— General merchandise; Geo. Hagemeyer & Sons, hardwood lumber. National Ice Co.; Ne\\ 

York Mutual Gas Co. 
E. 1 2th Street— New York Mutual Gas Co. 
E. 13th Street— J. Rheinfrank & Co., coal and wood. 
E. 14th Street— J. Rheinfrank & Co., coal and wood ; Wm. H. Schmohl, lime, cement, etc. ; John P. Kane& Co., 

lime, cement, etc- 

Behveen E. 14th and 15th Streets— Consolidated Gas Co. 
E. 15th Street- Consolidated Gas Co. 
E. 16th Street Consolidated Gas Co.; Hospital for Contagious Diseases : Willard Parker Hospital ; Health 

Department for Disinfectants. 
E- 17th Street— Department of Street Cleaning (stable A ) 

E. |Sth Street Pier— General merchandise; Carroll Box & Lumber Co.; Byron W. Green, jr., second-hand build- 
ing material. 
E- 19th Street— General merchandise; John J. Radley & Co., Iron Works and Foundry ; Electric Fire Prooling 

Co., general ofike, Hudson and Spring streets. 
E. 20th Street— Herbert & Co., coal pockets ; Consolidated Gas Co. 
E. 21st Street Pier— General merchandise ; Consolidated Gas Co. 
E. 22d Street- Consolidated Gas Co.: Paull Bryant, Naphtha Renovating Works. 

EAST 2jD STREET FERRY to Broadway, Brooklyn, E. D. 

Clark and Allen, grain dealers, Henry B. Turner, coal and wood. Gray & Lasher, lumber and timl^er. 

GREENPOINT FERRY. 
E. 24th Street Pier— Department of Public Works, (water meters); Wm. Campbell & Co., wall paper manufac- 
turers and interior decor;itions. 
(- .cih Stni-I Pic-r Dock Department. Between 25th and 26th streets, Candee & Smith, building material. 



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Kast 2^th Street to East 5oth Strc-t 



E. 26th Street Pier— Public Charities and Correction ; Steamers for Blackwell's, Ward's and Rand ill's Islands ; 

Bellevue Hospital : Station No. 2 of the New York Yacht Club. 
E. 27th Street -Bellevue Hospital. 

E. 28th Streei Pier— General Merchandise. S. Stewart, coal and wood ; United States Illuminating Co. 
E. 2()\h Strict Pier- General Merch.-ndise ; Jas Sinclair & Co., The Tuckahoe Marble Co. 
E- 31th Street— J jcob Doll, Pianoforte, etc., Circular Saw Mills ; Jackson's Architect Iron Works. 
E. jr St Street Pier.— Steamers that land at thii pier : —Steamer Idlewild for Great Neck, Sand's Point, Port 

Washington. Sea Cliff, Glen Cove, Genwood and Roslyn. L.I. ; Steamer Shady Sidi for Stamford ; 

Steamer Rosedale for Bridgeport; Steamer Al Foster tor Fishing Banks; Steamer for Norwalk ; 

Steamer Aurora, for Blackwell's, Ward's and Hart's Islands ; Steamer Maid of Kent for Greenwich, 

Conn. : Steamer for Shrewsbury River. Long Branch, etc. 

Brtween }ist and 32nd Streets, Lowther & Bros., coal and wood; Wm. Wicke & Co., cigar box 

manufactory; Swift's Dressed Beef (Murray Hill Beef Co). 
E. 32nd Street Pier— Glen Island steamers land ; Standard Gas Works ; A. Lichtenstein Son & Co. 
E. 53rd Street Pier— General merchandise; Knickerbocker Ice Co. ; A. L & A. G. Kaufmann, Colossus Cigar 

Factory ; General Incandescent Arc Light Co. 
E. 34th Street FEPRY to Long island City; Long Island Railroad. 

E. .?5th Street— Jeremiah Skidmore Sons, coal and wood ; Wm. P. Youngs & Bros., pine and hardwood lumber. 
E. 36th Street— Edward Elliott, coal and wood ; Popham & Co., coal and wood. 
E. 37th Street-fieneral merchandise ; Knowles Bros. Marble Works; P. Foley's Marble Works ; B. & J. 

Eschmann's Marble Works ; Davis Bros., coal and wood ; Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Station ; 

Headland, Robinson & Vaughn, mason materials ; Irwin's wood yard. 
E. 38th S'reet- Kip's Bay Brewing Co. ; Incumbent Yard No. 3 ; Department of Street Cleaning. 
E. 39th Street- E. J. McClusky, kindling wood ; A. Kern jr.. architectural work in carving; Italian coal yard; 

Equitable Gas Co. 
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E. 41st Street , Equitable Gas Co. 
E. 42d Street ' 

E. 4!d Street— Lehigh Valley Freight Station ; slaughter houses. 
E. 44th Street ] 

E 4?th Street i- Slaughter houses. 
E. 4'Jth Street ' 

E. 47th Street —Owens & Co., coal and wood. 

E. 4Hth Street Wm. J Peck, misons bjilding ni it.Ti,il ; Chas A. Stedler, malster. 
E. 4i;th Street— P De Witt & Co , coal and wood ; D. Loonle, coal and wood. 
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From East 50th Street to East Sgth Street. 



E. 51st Streiet— Unimproved water frontage. 

E 52d Street— Admiral and Opera Light Cigarettes, manufacturing : New York Hygeia ice Co. 

E. 53d Street— A. P. Bigelow, lumber and timber; Z. S. Oppenheimer, coal and wood ; Bell Bros., lumber and 

timber; CanJee & Smiih, masons' building material. 
E. 54th Street -Consumers Brewing Co. of New York, Ltd. ; private dock. 
E. 55th Street— Swimming Baths. 
E 56th Street— Curtis & Blaisdell's coal pockets. 
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E. 58th Street • Unimproved water frontage. 
E. 59th Street-' 

E. 6<Jth Street Pier— General merchandise. 
E. 61st Street Pier— General merchandise. 

E. 62d Street— Ehrenreich Bros.' coal pockets. ; John F. Kidney's Granite Works ; Orr Bros.' Granite Yard 
E- 63d Street -Ehrenreich Bros.' coal pockets; bulkhead— Rockland Lake Ice Co. 
E. 64th Street— Neidlinger & Sons, malsters. 

1:21;^} Unimproved water frontage. 

E 68th Street) ^- A & G. N. Williams, jr., cut stone contractors. 

E. 69th Street- Unimproved water frontage. 

E. 70th Street— Davis" Saw Mill 

E. 71st Street— E. Seidenbern, Stiefel & Co., cigar manufactory. 
Between 71st and 72d Streets— Clausen's Malt House. 

Ei 72d Street— Clausen's Malt House. 

E. 73d Street— Unimproved water frontage. 

E. 74th Street— Thedford Coal Co. 

E. 75th Street— Unimproved water frontage. 

E, 76th Street— Farmers' Feed Co. 

E. 77th Street— Unimproved water frontage. 

E. 78th Street— General merchandise. 

E 79th Street-Chas. Huber tV Son's Stone Works ; J. R. Setz's Stone Yard , Knickerbocker Ice Co. ; Nath- 
aniel Wise, mason materials. 

E. 80th Street- Nathaniel Wise, mason materials ; Office of Madison Square Light Co. ; Office of Manhattin 
Light Co. ; Office of Harlem Light Co. ; Masterson & Neary, blue stone. 

E. 81st Street— M. McGrath's granite stone yard; Fleischmann's Vienna Model Bakery ; J. Cough's artificial 
stone works. 

E. 82d Street , , , , , . , . 

E. 83d Street / Unimproved water frontage. 

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HARLEM RIVER. 



'HE project for a ship canal between the East and Hudson rivers by means of artificial connection 
between the Harlem River and Spuyten Duyvil Creek, and the improvement of the channels of these 
two bodies of water is one of considerable antiquity. The Morris family, under colonial grants, 
became the owners of large tracts of land, contiguous to the northerly side of the river, is still owned 
in the family. Higli Bridge was originally the head of navigation in the Harlem River, but there was a 
fair channel of about lo feet deep at mean low water as far as Morris Dock, six miles from the mouth of the 
river, and a crooked one of 7 feet deep to Fordham Landing, one mile farther; there was no navigation of 
this latter section, except by small boats used for transporting building material to the ' annexed district" 
King?bridge, ij miles from the Hudson River, was the head of navigation in Spuyten Duyvil Creek, but 
only at high water for vessels drawing 8 feet. The range of the tides in Harlem River varied from 5.5 feet 
at Third Avenue Bridge, to 6 feet at the mouth of Dyckman Creek, and in Spuyten Duyvil Creek was 
3 8 feet. Observations of the tides affecting these waters show that there is not a free exchange of tides 
between Harlem River and Spuyten Duyvil Creek, but that there is practically a divide somewhere near 
Fordham Bridge, between the tides flowing from the East River into the Harlem and from the Hudson 
River into Spuyten Duyvil Creek. Comparing the tides of the Harlem River at Fordham Bridge with those 
of the Hudson River at the mouth of Spuyten Duyvil Creek, it is found : ist, that the level of mean high 
water in the Hudson is near one foot lower than it is in the Harlem. 2nd, that the mean rise and fall of the 
tide in the Hudson is 2.12 feet less than it is in the Harlem- 3rd, That the mean duration of the rise of tides 
in the Hudson is 36 minutes shorter and the mean duration of the fall 26 minutes longer than in the 
Harlem. 4th, The mean level of the Hudson at the mouth of the Spuyten Duyvil Creek is 0.265 or afoot 
lower than at Fordham Bridge. 5th, High water occurs i hour and 34 minutes earlier in the Hudson than 
in the Harlem. 

When the several improvements in the Harlem River are completed, during the present year, it is 
expected that there will he a connecting channel 150 feet wide between the Hudson and East rivers, navi- 
gable at mean low water by vessels drawing 12 feet. As the result of the year's work to June 30th, 1895, 
the channel in the Spuylen Duyvil Creek section of the improvement, which at the beginning of the year was 
from 14 to 150 feet wide and 9 feet deep at mean low water, was straightened by excavating a cut 12 feet 
deep at mean low water, and about 140 feet wide through the point of meadow south of Johnson's foundry 
and generally deepened to a depth of 12 feet at mean low water from the Hudson River to the west end of 
Dyckman Cut, so that vessels drawing 12 feet can ascend the improved channel at low water from the 
Hudson to the new bridge at Broadway. In the Harlem River the improved channel is from 150 to 180 feet 
wide and 9 feet deep at mean low water from Broadway to a point 600 yards north of Morris Dock; from 
this point south to McComb's Dam Bridge at 155th Street the available channel is 160 feet wide and 10 feet 
deep at mean low water, and thence 15 feet and over can be carried to Ward's Island, East River. The 
draft of vessels passing through the improved channel from the Hudson to the East River at low water is at 
present, therefore, limited to 9 feet ; but by the completion of the work already under contract a 12-foot 
depth will be secured from river to river, in a channel with a width nowhere less than 150 feet. The River 
and Harbor bill, for 1896, has appropriated #125,000 for continuing the improvement of Harlem River. 



HARLEM RIVER DIRECTORY. 



See opposite page for Diagram for the be^innin^ of Harlem Riv 
from Sglh Street 



E. Stjth Street and East End Avenue— Beginning of Harlem 

River. 

Between East End Avenue and Avenue A— House of 

the Good Shephard. 
E. 9''th Street— General merchandise 

E. Qist Street— General merchandise pier ; Holmes and Phil- 
brick,, mason material. 
E. g2nd Street— Ferry TO ASTORIA. 
E 93rd Street and Aveiue A — Consolidated Ice Co. : East River Mill and 

Lumber Co. 

Between Avenue A and ist Avenue— Henicken & Willenbrock, coal 

and Wood. 
E. 94th Street— Henicken & Willenbrock, coal and wood. 
E. 95th and 96th Streets — General merchandise. 
E. 97th Street — Holmes & Philbrick, mason material. 
E. 98th Street— G L. Schuyler & Co , lumber and timber. 
E. 99th Street— Consolidated Gas Works. 

COLLEGE POINT FERRY. 
E. looth Street— General Merchandise Pier — T. F. Simonson & Son, lumber, 

timber etc. ; R. Walter, wjod working mill. 
E. 10 1 st Street— General Merchandise; John H Scully, bluestone yard ; Fred 

Schierenback Bottling Co.; Shelter for animals. A. S. P- C. A. 
E. io;nd Str-iret to lojrd Street— 

Harlem Produce Market. 
E. 103rd Street — Hanlein & Co.'s steam stone works. 
E. 104th Street— M. C. Henry & Co.'s stone works; Henlein & Co.'s steam 

stoneworks; W. H. Camp (successor to H. V. Mandeville) mfg. 

doors, etc.; Shutfleworth's stone works; Walter M. Brophy, tool dresser 

and maker; M. Lennert, meat chopping establishment. 
E. 105th Street— General merchandise; McHenry & Co.'s stone works ; 

Edwin Shuttleworth's steam stone works; Nathan's brass works. 
E. io6th Street— Nathan's brass works; W. H. Burke, coal yard. 
E. io7tl Street— J. Beeber's Sons, second hand material ; Meyer Bros., coal. 
E. 108th Street— Byorkstrom iron railing works; Standard Gas Works. 
E. 109th Street— Sens, Scheubner & Fredrich, steam stone works ; Eakins & 

Co., coal and wood. 
E. iioth Street — P. .Michel t& Co., kindling wood mill ; Donner, Lee & Co., 

manufacturing hatters' furnishings. 

Between noth and 112th Streets— Consolidated Gas Works. 
E ii2th, 113th and 114th Streets— General merchandise. 
E. iisth Street— Standard Gas Co ; Hill-Meyers' stone works. 
E. 1 16th Street— Rosenheimer Needle Co. 

E. 117th & 1 1 8th Streets— H. W. Wolfe & Co , wire and spring manufactory. 
E. tigth Street— Harlem coal pockets; also, Virginia pine oak, etc. 
E. I20th Street -Harlem Dispensary and Hospital. 
E. i2ist and 122nd Streets — Boats to let. 
E. 123rd Street— Unimproved waterfront. 
E. 124th Street and Pleasant Avenue— Steers' Lumber Yard- 
E. 124th Street and 1st Avenue— William Meas & Co.; East Side Boulevard 

Rubber and ivory Works. 
E, i2Sth Street and ist Avenue— General merchandise; The Belcher Glass 

Works; Yellow Pine Co., offices at yard and 16 Beaver street, N. Y. 




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1 lARLEM \U\'VA<-Con//nt/e(/. 
From East 126th Street to Madison Avenue Hridsre. 



E. 126th Street and 1st A%'enue-Yellow Pine Co., oflkes at yard and 16 Beaver street, N. Y. 
Between ist and 2nd Avenues— Harlem Casino and Garden. 

HARLEM RIVER PARK. 

E. 127th Street— Swift's Chicago Dressed Beef. 
SECOND AVENUE BRIDGE. 

Armour & Co., Chicago Dressed Beef. 

WEST SIDE OK RIVER. 

Payne's Mills and Elevator; The Harlem River Milling Co. 
THIRD AVENUE BRIDGE. 

Lexington Avenue and 131st Street - Harlem River Towboat Co.. J. H. McConnell. Agent. 

Between 131st Street and Park Avenue— The Le;lanche Co. 

Farrant & Votey Organ Co. ; Haines & Co., Piano Manufactory. 
FOURTH AVENUE BRIDGE. 

Between Park Avenue and 1 S5th Street-J. C. Watson Co.'s Grain Elevator. 

136th Street and Madison Avenue- Sperr>' & Popham's coal pockets; New York Coal Co. 

137th Street and Madison Avenue-J. Dobbins, coal ; Wood & Robinson, timber and lumber. 

MADISON AVENUE BRIDGE. 

Brick Market. Above this are boat cluh houses and unimproved water frontage. 

EAST SIDE OF RIVER. 
Estey Piano Co. ; Haines Brothers' Piano Manufactory. 
John Bell, mason material. 
Dailey's Towing Line. 
S. Trimmer & Son, coal and wood. 

THIRD AVENUE BRIDGE. 

Candee & Smith, mason materials. 

Harlem River Machine Works. 

A. D. Knapp, timber and lumber. 

The Henr>' Huber Co., plumbers' supplies. 

Robitzek. coal pockets. 

Harlem River Iron and Machine Works. 

J. L. Mott Iron Works. 

Candee & Smith, mason materials. 

FOURTH AVENUE BRIDGE. 

Church, Gates & Co., lumber and timber. 

E. M. Pritchard & Co., sash, door, etc., mill. 

John Bell & Son, mason m.iterials. 

138th Street and Mott Avenue- Wilson, Adams & Co., hard and soft woods. 

Madison avenue bridge. 

John F. Allen's M.uhine Shop. 

Wilson. Adams & Co., limber and lumber. 

L. H. Mace & Co.. manufacturers of woodware. 

Excursion steamers, winter. 

Morris HeiRhts Gas Engine and Power Co. 

Fordham Heights— Webb's Academy and Home for Shipbuilders. 



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WATER-FRONT DIRECTORY. 



SOUTH BROOKLYN. 




GOWANUS BAY 



65th Street— FERRY TO WHITEHALL STREET, New York. 

55th Street— Atlantic Yacht Club Basin. 

53d Street— U. S. Projectile Co. 

52d Street- Brooklyn City Power Works. 

43d Street— Bush's Stores. 

39th Street-H. W. Johns Mfg. Co., office 87 Maiden Lane, New York. Nassau Electric R. R. Power Station; 

Sanford's coal yard. Sheet-iron and Metal Works. 
39th Street Ferry to Whitehall Street, New York. Sea Beach R. R. T. Co., West End R. R. 

AMBROSE PARK— 38th Street to 32d Street. 
32d Street— Ambrose Basin. 

32d to 28th Streets — Unimproved v ater frontage. 
28th Street Pier— Arronott's Stores : Fruit steamers ; F. W. Starr, lumber and timber. 



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GOWANUS CREEK. 

EAST SIDE-FROM ENTRANCE TO HAMILTON AVENUE BRIDGE. 

27th Street Pier— Peter Mallett & Co. (Waverly Stores) ; Morse Iron Works Co., oftice 66 New Street, New 

York ; Ross Iron Works, office 81 Broad Street, New York ; Brooklyn Dry Dock and Warehouse 

Co. ; John McNeil's Dry Dock and Shipyard ; 1. P. Jones, shipwright. 
26th Street Pier— Manning Yacht Agency Basin. 

25th Street Pier— C. W. Willard's coal pockets ; Roger's Export Lumber yard. 
24th Street— Hall & Hurlbert, ship and machine smiths; Geo. E. Lanagan's Engine and Boiler Works. 

Between 24th and 22d Streets— Wm. M. Tebo's Dry Dock and Yacht Basin. 
22d Street Jansen, shipyard and sparmaker ; Swimming Baths- 
21st Street— Timber Basin- 
20th Street Pier— F. W. Cornish & Co's spar yard ; Adams & Jimenis, lumber, office 114 Wall Street, Ne\\ 

Yo-k ; Holder & Smith's spar yard ; Hilton & Dodge Lumber Co., New York office 81 New Street : 

Tiegatthen's Dry Dock, successor to Geo. Towsend. 
iQth Street— Hilton & Dodge, lumber; Brooklyn Iron and Blo:k Co. 
18th Street— Yellow Pine Co. (Yard E) successors to Brooklyn Saw Mill Co. 
14th Street and Hamilton Avenue— Nelson Bros, coal pockets ; Brooklyn Lumber Co. ; J. B. Wood's general 

merchandise dock. 

WEST SiDE-FROM ENTRANCE TO HAMILTON AVENUE BRIDGE. 
Foot of Court Street— Downing .% Lawrence's Dry Docks; C. & R- Poillon, shipwrights, etc.; Hilton \ 

Dodge, (successors to Beard & Kingsland) timber and lumber ; M. Elsessor's Machine Works. 
Smith and Halleck Streets -Mica Roofing Co. ; S. W. Bowne & Co., liay and grain. 
Smith and Bay Streets— Bowne's Stores- 
Smith and Grinnell Streets— Clonbrook Boiler Works ; \^ hite & Price Machine Works ; Nelson Bros, coal 

pockets ; The Hugh Bond Gowanus Towing Co 

GOWANUS CANAL. 

PROCEEDING NORTH FROM HAMILTON AVENUE BRIDGE. 

Hamilton avenue BRIDGE-West side of draw is 37 feet 9 inches wide at low water ; depth at low wafer' 

12 feet ; East side of draw is 33 feet 7 inches wide at low water ; depth at low water 1 1 feet. 

WEST SIDE. EAST SIDE. 



National Cotton Seed Oil Co. 

G. W. Bush's Salt Works- 

Artlticial Stone Co. 

Hagerty's Glass Works. 

Brooklyn and Coney Island Power House. 



Hobby & Doody, mason material. 

Metropolitan Gas Co. 

Hol->by & Doody, mason material. 



NlNllI A\1':XU1- HRHDGE. 

West side of draw is 31 feet wide at low water; depth at low water, 11 feet. East side of draw is 30 feet wide at 

low water ; depth at low water, 12 leet. 

WEST SIDE. , EAST SIDE. 

Grey's Sulphur Works. Cream Tartar Works, (jerman Hartshorn Works. 

N. Ryan's sand and gravel yard. I IN 7TH STREET SLIP. 



H. J. Baker Bros.' Chemical and Fertilizer Works 

Citizens Gas <!lo. 

Buell's sand and gravel yards. 

Consolidated Ice Co. 

P. T. Sharp & Co., coal and wood. 

Nicholas Davis, coal yard. 



Cream Tartar Works; Weblierit Quinn'scoal yd.; 
Fitzsimmon's sand .iiid t''.i\fl yard ; Wilson .V 
Bailey, sewer pipe ;ind Kuscrelc works ; D.ims' 
oil works; L. Co/zen's coal v.ird; Hartshorn H.ik- 
ging Mills; Robt. Avers, coal yard: Sill's Sul- 
phur Works ; Wood's Dock. 

4TH STREET SLIP. 

Litchfield's dock ; Rring's ni;ichine shop ; Allen's 
rope walk : Wood's co.d vard : Nuiigasser's 
codl yard; Sumner's Tin l-iiilnrv ; Pnwrll \ Ti- 
tus' coal yard; SJirocdcr vV Horseman, coal: 
Consolidated ke Co. dock ; Cooper's stone vard; 
Blaisdell's stone yard ; Bradley's Concrete Pave- 
ment Co ; Candee&Co., building material. 



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SOUTH BROOKLYN— GOVVANUS C^n^\ -Continued. 
THIRD STREET BRIDGE. 

West side of draw is 32 feet wide at low water ; depth at low water, 8 feet. East side of draw is 33 feet wide 
at low water ; deptii at low water, 8 feet. 



WEST Sine. 
Long Island Wood Co. : S. Dean's stone yard ; 

Truesdell & Sliaw, hay and grain ; H. S. Chis- 

chain & Clark, building material. 
Standard Oil Works. 

Wa'son, Peltinger & Co., lumber: John Morton 
■ & Sons, ^uilding material- 



EAST SIDE. 
L. H. Marks' coal yard. 
Nassau Railroad Power House- 
Gold & Nichol's stone yard. 
Watson cSi Pettinger's lumber yard. 



CARROLL STREET BRIDGE- 

West ? de of draw is 37 feet wide at low water ; depth at low water, 8 feet. East side of draw is 37 feet wide 

at low water ; depth at low water, 8 feet. 
WEST SIDE. EAST SIDE. 

T. H. Lidford's coal yard. J. H. Lomas & Co., lumber. 

E. H. Itjen's coal and woad yard. I Kenyon & Newton, lumber. 

UNION STREET BRIDGE. 

West side of draw is 32 feet wide at low water ; depth at low water, 8 feet- East side of draw same 

dimensions. 



WEST SIDE. 
J. F. Schmedike's coal yard. 
Nelson & Son, coal yard. 
Wm. Murtah's coal and wood yard. 



EA^^r SIDE. 
Dikeman's lumber yaid and bo,x factory. 
Fulton Municipal Gas House. 
I. T, Stone's coal yard. 



J- F. Hughes, building material- ' Kelsey & Loughton's coal yard. 

Bulkhead— Brooklyn City Dock. 



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ATLANTIC BASIN. 



Ja-NOTE —1 he numbers at the beginning of » line in the Direclory with corresponding numben in Distgram »re merely to de^gnate 
the buNiness there, not the piers. l*hedilTerenl Btores along Brooklyn's water front have t>ceo lormed Into a trust and styled 
the brooltlyn Wharf and Warehotise Co., but in order not to mislead, the original titles are here given instead, as Merchants* 
Stores, Heard's Stores, etc. 



1. Pinto's Stores. 

2. Norton's S. S. Line. 

?. Miscellaneous steamship lines that have no regular place to load and discharge cargo. 

4. Atlantic Si'gar House. 

5. Knott's Pf ince Steamship Line ; John C Seager, general agent, 2 Stone Street, New York- 

6. Earn Steamship Co. 

7. D. D. Mangam & Co., feed, etc. 

8. Brooklyn Wharf and Warehouse Co., grain elevator, A. 

9. •' " " •' B. 

10. ' ' C. 

If. Clintiin Stores ; Laimbeer Stores. 

12. Central America Steamship Line- 

13. New York and Nicaragua Steamship Line. 

14. New York & Porto Rico Steamship Co., Miller, Ball & Knowlton,-agts. 96 Water& 13 Pearl Sts . NewYork. 

15. Union Direct Hamburg Steamship Line (Sloinan's steamers) for Hamburg ; Punch, Edye & Co., agents. 

Produce E.xchange Anne.x, Floor C, New York. 

16. Compagnie Nationale de Navigation a Vapeur Steamship Line for Marseilles ; Punch, Edye & Co., agents, 

17. Bordeaux Steamship Line ; Punch, Edye cSi Co., agents. 

18. Johnston Steamship Line for Baltimore and Tampico, Me.xico ; Wm. Johnston & Co, (Limited) general 

agents, 5, 6, 7 Produce Exchange Building, New York. 

19. Sailing vessels. 

20. Excelsior Stores. 

21. Powell Mfg. Co. (formerly of 86 and 88 N. 4th street, Brooklyn, E, D.) oftice 120 Front street. New York. 

BETWEEN ATLANTIC AND ERIE BASINS. 

22. Stiannahan Tobacco Inspection, 

23. Mutual Co.. office 127 Produce Exchange, New York. 

24. John W. McDonald's lumber yard. 

25. Johnson & Hammond Naval Stores Yard. 

26. '• 

27. Lidgerwood Mfg. Co. 

28. German- American Stores. 

29. Merchants' Stores ; Hygiene Ice Factory. 

30. Brooklyn Wharf and Warehouse Co, 

31. Burtis' Dry Dock. 

32. Brooklyn Wharf and Warehouse Co. 



ERIE BASIN, 



1. Beard's Stores. 

2. Anwlo- American Stores, 

3. Erie Basin Dry [Jocks, J.ihn N. Robbnis & Co. ; oliice 32 Wa>hinRton Strrt-t, New Yi ik 

4. Timl>er Basin. 

5. Hilton \ Dodge Lumber C.I. 

6. Towsend & Downey, sparmakers. 

7. Brooklyn Balance Dock. 

8. Wm. Gokey & Son's Dry Docks, 
9. 

10. Thco. A. Crane's Sons, Dry Dock. 



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BRADLEY'S REMINISCENCES OF NEW YORK HARBOR. 



BROOKLYN. 



• •.NOTE— The nunilicrs at Ihc bvelnnine of a line in the Directory with correspanJinK numbers In Diagram are merely to desicnnie Ihe 
business there, not the piers. The dlff;rent Stores alonst Brooklyn's wjler front have been formed into a trurst and aiyled 
the Brooklyn Wharf and Warehouse Co., but In order not to mislead the original titles are here given instead, as M.::chants' Stores • 
Beard's Stores, etc. 

HAMILTON FERRY TO WHITEHALL STREET. NEW YORK. 

Foot Sackett Street— Ward's Stores. 

1. Brooklyn Wharf .inj Warehouse Co's Grain Elevator Pier. 

2. Pier 31— Union Stores ; Trinidad Shipping and Trading Steamship Line. 

3. Pier 30— Union Stores: Anchor Steamship Co. (freight) for Glasgow', Liverpool, etc. ; Henderson Bros. 

agents, 7 Bowling Green, New York. 

4. Pier 29-Union Stores ; Anchor Steamship Line for Glasgow, Liverpool, etc. 

5. Greason & Howland's coal pockets. 

6. Hill Bros. Stores. 

7. Pier I— J. P. Robinson Congress Street Stores; West India Steamship Line. 

8. Pier 2— J. R. Robinson's Stores. 

9. Pier 3— 

>o. I'ier 24— Beard's Stores ; Red Cross Steamship Line for Pilley's Island and St. John's, Newfoundland : 
and Halifax, N. S., Bouring & Archibald, general agents, 9 Ston; street, Ne.v York. 
Between Amity and Pacific streets— Knickerbocker Ice Co. 

11. Pier 23— Do'.v's Stores and Grain Elevator. 

12. Pier 22— " 

SOUTH FERRY TO WHITEHALL STREET, NEW YORK. 
Ferry Repair Yard. 
15. Pier J— Woodruff's Stores and Grain Elevator. 

14. Pier 2— Woodruff's Stores ; Vogemann Steamship Line for Hamburg. 

15. Pier I— Woodruff's Stores; Royal Dutch West India Mail Service Steamship Line for Port-au-Prince, Aun 

Cayes, etc., Kuhnhardt & Co., agents. 32 Beaver street, Ne-v York. 

16. Pier 3— Prentice Stores ; Wilson Steamship Line for London. 

17. Pier 2- Prentice Stores ; Wilson Steamship Line for Hull 

iS, Pier I— Prentice Stores ; Wilson Steamship Line for Newcastle-on-T)ne, Sanderson & Sons, agents, 22 

State Street, New York. 
Wall Street ferry to Wall Street, New York 

19. Pier 2— Pierrepoint Stores ; Red D. Line Steamships for Laguara, Puerto Cabello ; Bujlton, Bliss & Dillett 

general agents, 135 Front Street, New York 

20, Pier I— Pierrepont Stores ; Cyp'n Fabres Frencli Steamship Line for Marseilles and Mediterranean ports ; 

Jas, W, Elwell & Co , general agents, 4/ South Street, New York, 
?i. Pier 2.— Mediterranean Store ;; Mediterranean and New York Steamship Co., for Mediterranean ports: 
Phelps Bros. A: Co.. general agents, 29 Broadway, New York. 

22. Pier I —Mediterranean Stores; Mediterranean and Ncv York Steam.>lip Co., for Mediterranean port^ 

Pheipp Bros & Co., general agents, 29 Broadway, New York. 

23. Pier 10 Robert's Stores : Lamport & Holt Steamship Line for Brazil, etc. 
24 Pier 2— Harbeck Stores and grain elevator. 

25. Pier I— Harbeck Stores. 
26 Pier I — Watson's Stores. 

27. Pier I Martin's Stores; Baoth Steamship Co.. (LimiteJ) ; ReJ Cross Lin; for North Brazil and Ami/on 
River; Shipton Green, agent, 117 Pearl Street, New York. 

28 Pier 2— Martin's Stores ; Lamport & Holt Steamship Line for Brazil and River Plate ports. Busk \ Jc\ oiis, 

agents, 3<ii Produce E.xchange Building, New York. 

29 Pier 3 (new No. s) -Martin's Stoies. 

30 Pier 4 (new No. 6) —Martin's Stores : Knickerbocker Ice Co. 

Jewell's Wharf ; Atlantic White Lead Works. 

BROOKLYN ANNEX FERRY to Pennsylvania Railro;id Depot, Jersey City. 

Fl/LTON FERRY to Fulton Street, New York, 

BROOKLYN BRIDGE, 



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I '.R()( )K \.\y.—Con/iiiiird. 

Brooklyn Bridge to Navy Yard. 

BROOKLYN BRIDGE. 
Bridge Pier— Rockaway steamers land here. 

Marston & Sons, coal and wood. 
Dock Street. -Fulton Stores. 
3>. Pier }— Empire Stores. 

32. Pier 2— Empire Stores ; West India Steamship Line. 

33. Pier I -Empire Stores : Norton's Line of Steamers. 
CATHARINE FERRY to Catharine Street New York. 

34- Donald M tcdonald's lumber yard 

35- Joseph H. Colyer's coal and wood yard. 

36. Wadell & Co. 's cooperage, office 21 Old Slip, New York. 

37. Moguin, Offerman & Heissenbuttel, coal pockets ; E. W. Bliss & Co., machinery works ; Arbuckle's 

Adams Street Mills. 

38. Moquin, Offerman & Heisenbuttel Coal Co.'s pockets. 
3Q Arbuckle's Coffee Stores ; Frost Bros., coal and wood- 

40. Miller & Van Winkle, steel, wire-spring manufacturers. 

41. N. Y. C. & H. R. R. freight station. 

42. Ice boats discharge. 

43. E. R. Squibb & Son's chemical works. 
44- Atlantic White Lead Works. 

45. Brooklyn Gas Works. 

46. " " " 



BROOKLYN N.W'Y Y.\RD. 



HIS semicircular bay, called the Wallabout, formerly named by the old Dutch colonists "Wall 
Baght," or " Fallow Bend," is the site of the present Navy Yai'd. After the battle of Long Is- 
land had been won by the British, the Wallabout Channel became a favorite anchorage for their 
men-of-war. The prison hulks, the most notorious of which was the " Old Jersey," or the 
"Hell," as she was called, were moored here for many years during the War of Independence. The horrors 
of these prison-ships, where thousands of unfortunates were confined by the English, is a matter of historical 
record. At the close of the War of Independence the land adjoining the Wallabout was owned bv John 
Johnson, who started a shipyard, from which he launched a merchant ship and the U- S. frigate John AJams. 
It seems to have been the intention, originally, to build a battery at the Wallabout, to contribute to the 
defence of New York Harbor. In the deed transferring the jurisdiction of the water-front to the Gen- 
eral Government, It Is provided that the national right to these waters shall continue " so long as the 
same shall be used and .ipplied for the safety and defence of the said city and port of New York 
and no longer, and revert to the people of the State of New York when not applied to the purpose 
aforesaid." The first commandant of the Navy Yord was Lieutenant Thorn. The first receiving ship 
stationed there was a large floating steam-battery called Fulton the First. This ship blew up in June, 
1820, causing the death of thirty-three men. Next came the North Carolina, which was a landmark 
for many years, until she was succeeded by the Vermont, an old line-of-battie ship The Navy Yard has 
a water frontage of one mile in extent. 



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BRADLEY'S REMINISCENCES OF NEW YORK HARBOR 



WALLABOUT CREEK. 



First Pier at mouth of creek— Ridgewood Ice Co. ; Jas. Brown, hay and straw. 
Second Pier— General merchandise ; P. Neville & Son, hay, etc. 

PROCEEDING UP THE CREEK— RIGHT HAND SIDE. 

i. Watson & Heies, Ice. 

2. Tellie's v/ood yard. 

3. John T. Welch's ice dock. 

4. Brick boats discharge. 

5. General merchandise. 

6. Coal boats discharge. 

7. August Grill's Ice Depot. 

LEFT HAND SIDE. 

8. Thos. F. Taylor's coal pockets. 

9. Lead Pipe and Trap Works. (H. P. Reed.) 

10. S. Tuttle's Sons coal pockets. 

11. King & Adams, mason material. 

12. Walter T. Klots & Bros., mason material. 
I ). The Oakley & Wilson Mfg. Co. 

14. Ideal Rubber Co. 

15. Crescent Electric Machine Co. 

16. J. T. Story, coal and wood. 

17. The Barber- Pritchard Coal Navigation Co. 

18. Andrew Beard's stone yard. 

19. Eastern Bermudez-Asphalt Paving Co. 
20^ H. F. Burroughs Co., masons material. 

21. Chemical Steel Works. 

22. Johnson Bros., lumber yard. 

FROM MOUTH OF CREEK-NORTH. 
Clymer Street— Beyer's Elevator: G. Hoyt & Co., hardwoods. 
Between Clymer and Rush Streets— The Nassau Gas Light Co. 

Rush Street— Ranney Refrigerator Co ; I. Totten, coal and wood ; Knickerbocker Ice Co. 
Division Street— Brooklyn City R. R. Machine Works. 

Between Division and S. nth Streets— .duller, Sierck & Co.'s Sugar House. 
South Eleventh Street - Merrill Bros., machine shop ; People's Gas Light Co. 

Bstwjen S. lolh an J S. gth Streets -Brjoklvn Distillery Co. 
South Ninth Street— Del.iware, Lackawanna and Western R. R. station (freight) ; Sherm.in 

Between S. 9th and S. 8th streets— Manhattan Leather Belting Co. 

South Eighth Street-FBRRY TO ROOSEVELT STREET, New York. 

Broadway— FERRY TO GRAND AND EAST TWENTY THIRD STREETS, New York. 



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BROOKLYN, E. D.— From South 6th Street to Newtown Creek. 



S. 6th Street- F. W. Wurster & Co.'s Rolling Mill ; Geo. P. ^ 

Jacobs & Co., supplies for plumbers. 

Between S- 6th and S. 5th Streets— American Su- 
gar Refining Co. (formerly Havemeyer's). 
S. 5th to S. 1st Streets— American Sugar Refining Co. 
Grand Street— FERRIES TO GRAND AND HOUSTON STS., ^ 

New York. 

Freight station of Baltimore and Ohio R. R. ; Cen- 
tral R. R. of N. J. ; Phila. and Reading R. R- 
N. ist Street — F. E. Teves, coal pockets. 
N. 2d Street — Amer. Sugar Refining Co., (for. Havemeyer's) 
N. 3d Street— " 
N. 4th Street— Palmer's Stores. 

Between N. 4th and N. 5th Streets— Pennsylvania 

R. R. freight station. 
N. 5th Street- Pennsylvania R. R. freight station. 

Between N 5th & N. 6th Streets— Palmer's Dock : 

New York, Lake Erie and W. R. R. 
N. 6th Street Palmer's Dock— Lehigh Valley R. R. ; N. Y. Central and 

H. R. R. freight station. 

Between N- 6th and N. yth Streets— American Sugar Refinery 

(Havemeyer's) barrel factory. 
N- 7th Street— Old Dominion Steamship Co.'s freight station. 
N. 8th Street— Palmer's Dock-N. Y. Lackawanna and W. R. R. : N. Y. 

Central &H.R. R. , West Shore R.R. ; Lehigh Valley R. R freight 

station ; Potato market. 
N. gth Street—Palmer's coal pockets- ; Lehigh Valley R. R. freight. 
N. loth Street— Palmer's grain elevator ; Lehigh Valley R. R., freight. 

Between N. lotli and N. nth Streets— Standard Oil Co.'s Domes- 
tic Trade Dept, J. C. Miller, mgr. 

Between N. nth and N.^i2th Streets— Williamsburgh Gas Light 

Co. 
N. i2th Street— Standard Oil Works. 
N. 13th Street— Pratt's Oil Works; Henry Vogt& Bros.' Manufacturing Co. 

BUSHWICK CREEK BRIDGE. 
Quay Street & Franklin Steam Boiler Works ; C. Winnant'sSpar Yard ; H. 

Lawrence's Ship Yard. 

Between Quay and Colyer Streets— Continental Iron Works. 
Colyer Street— Continental Iron- Works; American Jute Mills; Knicker- 
bocker Ice Co. 
Noble Street — American Jute Mills Storage. 
Milton Street— W. C. W. Child's Iron Works. 

Between Milton and Greenpoint Avenue— John Eglis & Son's 

Ship Yard. 

GREENPOINT AVENUE. 
FERRIES TO E. loth & E. 23rd STREETS, New York. 
Kent Street— J. W, & W. T. Smith, timber yard ; Faber's Pencil Works. 
JAVA STREET-John C. Orr & Co.'s Saw Mill. 
India Street— John C Orr & Co.'s Saw Mill. 
Huron Street— Wm. Uptegove & Bro.'s lumber yard. 
Greene Street— New York Dye Wood Co. 
Freeman Street— P. M. Dingee & Sons' timber yard ; Wm. Gaskell & Sons' 

Greenpoint Bolt Works. 




BRADLEY'S REMINISCENCES OF NEW YORK HARBOR. 



Newtown Creek. 

(^■yEWTOWN Creek is a tidal stream about four miles long. The range of tides is 4J feet approxi- 
'j"*r mately. It was but a few years ago that this waterway was comparatively unimportant, except at its 
(y\y mouth, owing to an insufficient depth of water. It has now reached a point where it ranks 
among the most important streams in the United States (according to its size) in the extent 
of its commerce. In May last (1895) the 18-foot channel from the entrance to Vernon Avenue Bridge 
was 175 feet wide and 150 feet wide at and near the bridge, with a 21-foot channel 40 feet wide 
in the centre. The channel from Vernon Avenue Bridge to Central Oil Works was 80 feet wide 
and 16 feet deep, mean low water, with an 18-foot channel 40 feet wide through the centre; from the 
Central Oil Works to Oueen's County Oil Works, 100 feet wide and 14 feet deep : from the latter 
works to Nichols Chemical Works 100 feet wide and 12 feet deep : from Nichols Chemical Works to 
Maspeth Avenu*, 75 feet wide and 10 feet deep; from Maspetli Avenue to Metropolitan Avenue, on the 
East Branch, 100 feet wide and 10 feet deep ; and on the West Branch, 50 feet wide and 10 feet deep. 
In the English Kills Branch the channel is 100 feet wide and 8 feet deep from Nichols Chemical Works 
to a point 700 feet to the eastward. 

The River and Harbor bill of 1896 authorizes contracts for the improvement of the channel not to 
exceed in the aggregate 5420,000 , the first appropriation under the new bill is $30,000. A uniform depth 
of 18 feet, at mean low water, and a width of 125 feet will be secured for the channel from the mouth 
of the creek to the head of navigation. 



NEWTOWN CREEK DIRECTORY. 

The business firms come in rotation as you proceed up the creek from its entrance. 



SOUTH SIDE. 
Bay Street — Z. Bergen's lumber yard. 
Blue Street— Geo. H. Reeves' lumber yard. 
Pink Street— Logan Iron Works. 
Red Street— American Sugar Refmery. 
Ann Street— '' " '• 

Dick Street— E. P. Gleason Mfg.Co.'s Works. 



VERNON 
Olephene Oil Works. 
Brooklyn Oil Works. 
Church & Co.'s (Dock A) Soda and Chem 

leal Works. 
Daniel McCollum's coal yard. 
E. C. Smith's lumber and box f.ictory. 
Greenpoint Wood Co. 
Geo. W. Piper & Co.. coal. 
John Cooper's fire clay dock. 
Post & McCord's Iron Works. 
RIchey, Browne & Donald Iron Works. 
H. F. Tainters Mfg. Co "s Works. 
Morris iNi Cumminn's Dredging Co. 
W. H. Meserole, building material. 
Jas. U. I.cary, shipbuilder and contractor. 
Empire Refining Co., Limited. 
Kings County Oil Works, No. 4. 
Welsh's tiint>er basin. 
Eclipse on Works. 



NORTH SIDE. 
Chelsea Jute Mills. 
C. & D. McWilliams' dry dock. 
Long Island Lumber Co. 
H. F. Boroughs & Co., lumber. 
Whiting Lumber Co. 
Roscoe Lumber Co. 

Union College pumping dock ; Standard Silica 
Cement Co. 

Jas. H. & T. L'Hommedieu, lumber. 
Newtown Creek Towing Co. (Russell Bros.) 

AVENUE BRIDGE, 

70. N. Y. Vol. Life Saving Service. 
White Star Towing Co. 
Wm. Meserole. mason material. 

C. Cunningham's Novelty Boiler Works. 
Knickerbocker Ice Co.'s depot. 
N. W. Godfrey's gravel yard. 
Mechlen's Family Oil Co. 

D. S. Jones, coal and building material. 
Thos. Morgan's grain elevator. 
Long Isl.ind Marine and Construction Co 
J. N. New & Bro., coal and wood. 
Eppingcr iV Russell's Creosote Works. 
Simonds Mfg, Co.'s factory. 
Empire Storage & Lumber Co. 
L. I. R. R. Co.'s range of docks. 



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BIMDLEY'S REMINISCENCES OF NEW YORK HARBOR. 



SOUTH SIDE. 
Columbus Distilling Co.'s Works 
Kings County Oil Works. No. i. 
Empire Towing & Lighterage Co, 
Standard Oil Co.'s dock. 
Cram Estate. 
Wilson & Anderson dock. 



Blesser's Granite Works. 
Ackerman's Rendering Works. 
American Carbon Co.'s Works. 
Demuth Bros.' Glass Works 
Peter Cooper Glue Factory. 
Cover's dock. 



GREENPOINT AVENUE BRIDGE. 

1 NORTH SIDE. 

I 85. Browne's lumber dock. 

I 86 New York Refining Co. 

I 87. Fleischman's Eastern Distillery Co. 

I 88. Van Ederstine Bros.' Refining Works. 

8q. Preston Fertilizer Co. 

90. Queens County Oil Works. 

Qi. Cal\arv Cemetery dock. 

MEEKHR AVENUE BRIDGE. 

j 92. Nichols' Chemical Co.'s Works. 

I 93. Read Fertilizer Co.'s Works. 

' 94. Haberman Mfg. Co.'s Enamel Ware Works. 

95. Edward Preston's Bone Works. 

] 96. Andrew Wissel's dock. 

! 97. Moller & Co.'s Fertilizer Works. 

98. Acme Fertilizer Co.'s Works. 



l-'jUi; l<LuiJ \\'l"jJ C'j 'i otiice and yard. 
Frederick Fries, coal and wood. 
Chapman's docks. 

METROPOLITAN A\E. 

Funk Bros.' oil depot. 

Knickerbocker Ice Co 's depot. 

John Groppe's coal yard. 

U. S. Cordage Co.'s dock and factory. 

Chas. R. Baker's docks. 

August Grill, ice depot. 

Brooklyn Kiifclling Wood Co. 

Chas. H. Reynold tV Sons' coal pockets. 

W. T. Klots & Bros.' Sons, bldg. material. 

H. M. Wiltsie, ice depot. 



eS: GRAND ST. BRIDGES. 



Long Island Railroad Draw Bridge. 
H. F. Buroughs lV Co., brick. 
Gorman & Roeser, ice depot. 
Theo. F. Jackson's docks 



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Harris Avenue Morrisons stoi 

Noble Strert-Sum.ick I He \\, 



East Branch— Grand Street Draw Bridge. 
99. Chris. F. Heick, coal. 
100 Alden. Sampson & Sons, oil cloth factory. 

101. C. D. Smith, building material. 

102. Hardy, Voorhes & Co , lumber docks ; S.Tut- 
tle's Son & Co., coal pockets. 

101. Cross. Austin & Ireland Lumber Co. 
WEST BRANCH- 

104. Louis Bosser's lumber and planing mills. 

105. Cross, Austin & Ireland water front. 

106. C. H. Reynolds & Son, coal pockets. 

107. Theo. R. Chapman's docks. 

108. Wm. Cooper Estate dock. 
IC9. John Gruppe, coal yard, 
no. Jackson V Meserole's dock. 

111. Jackson's & Meserole's dock. 

112. J. Groppe's lot. 
in. (jen. J. V. Meserole's dock. 

114. Chas. H. Reynold's dock. 

1 1 5. Theo. F. J.ickson's dock. 

116. Brooklyn. Queens Co. & Suburban R.R. dock. 
From mouth of Newtown Creek proceeding north to Astoria. 

liT l^lir.1 R,iilro;id Freight Pier. Long Island Freight Depot, 
iirth Street and James' Slip. New York. 

Miish Works 

shop: The Barber Asph.ilt Paving Co ; Warren Chem. & Mfg. Co. 
i-^r Works : New York Mastic Works. 
ho.xiiiK and oil yard. 

J Oil Co.'s Refining and Devoe's p.ickinR yard 
\ Sons stone yard. Bet. r4th and BoJine Sts., The Electrozone Co. 
:i^ > i.i.;.;iiiu Mctory. 

irks. Betsveen Harris and Freemont Avenues -East River Gas Co. 
Washington Street— John ( jo,.Je's Rope Works. 



iWN CREEK BRIDGES. 



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BRADLEY'S REMINISCENCES OF NEW YORK HARBOR. 



JERSEY CITY. 

COMMUNIPAW DIRECTORY. 

In Cove— National Storage Co.'s Warehouses and Docks; Marine Vapor Engine Co. 

Proceeding North from Cove. 
The first is Fort Liberty Pier. 
Pier 8 — Communipaw Coal Co. 
Piers 7, 6, 5, 4— Central R. R. of New Jersey (freight). 

Between Piers 4 and 3— C. R. R. of N. J. float bridges. 
Pier 3— Central R. R. of New Jersey (freight). 

Ferry to liberty Street, New York. 

Pier 2— Central R. R. of New Jersey, Sandy Hook Steamers lay up. 
Pier i|— Lehigh Valley R. R., freight. 

Between Pier i* and Pier A— Lehigh Valley R. R. floats. 
Piers A, B, C, D-Lehigh Valley R. R., freight. 



MORRIS CANAL BASIN. 



SOUTH SIDE. 
Proceeding up the Basin. 



Rickard & Son's Dry Dock. 



2. Pier G— Lehigh Valley R. R., freight (pier not 
show on diagram). 



3. Pier H^Lehigh Valley R. R., freight (pier not 
shown in diagram). 



4. Lehigh Valley R. R. Stock Yard. 



5. U. S. Building Material Co., office 621 Broad- 
way, New York. 



NORTH SIDE. 
Proceeding up the Basin. 
Lehigh Valley R. R. Coal Pier. 
American Sugar Refining Co., Washington St. 
American Sugar Refining Co , Warren Street. 
American Sugar Refining Co. 
M. Davis, mfg. propeller wheels. 
J. H. Davis' Dry Dock. 
John Swanson's Dry Dock. 
Gap— Central R. R. Coal Co. 
The Barber Asphalt Paving Co. 
P. H. Doherty, ice depot. 
Jas. P. Hall, building material. 
P. Sanford Ross's log basin. 
Palmer's Dry Dock. 
Wm. Rickard's Dry Dock. 
Robt. Smith's Dry Dock. 
Washburn's brick yard. 



From mouth of Morris Canal Basin, going North. 
Foot of Hudson Street— Colgate's lumber dock. 
First pier— Lehigh Valley, coal. 

Between first pier and Esse.x Street— The Brown Dry Dock Co. ; Theo. Smith & Bro., machine 

and boiler shop. 

Between Essex and Morris Street Pier— Vulcan Iron Works. 
Morris Street Pier— General merchandise. 

Between Morris and Sussex Streets— Vulcan Steam Boiler Works ; New Jersey Ice Co. ; Gushing 

Co.'s Stores. 
Susse.< Street Pier A— International Navigation Co. (Red Star Steamship Line) ; Jersey City Brass Foundry. 

Between Sussex and Grand Streets— Jersey City Steam Copper and Brass Works. 
Grand Street Piei B— International Navigation Co. (Red Star Steamship Line). 

Between Grand and York Streets— Jersey City Stores. 
Foot of York Street, Pier C— Penn. R. R. ; Sicilian Steamship Line. 

PENNSYLVANIA ANNEX to Fulton Street, Brooklyn. 

FERRIES to Cortlandt and Desbrosses Streets, New York. 
Pier D— Adams Express, freight. 

Penn. R. R. floats. 
Pier E— Penn. R. R. freight. 

Penn. R. R. floats. 
Pier F- General merchandise. 



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JERSEY CITY. 

See Diagram, opposite page. 

Allison's Dry Dock and Shipyard. 

BAY Street Ferry to w. 13th St., NewYork, 

Pier G— General merchandise. 

Pennsylvania Railroad floats. 
Piers H, 1, J, K, L- Pennsylvania Railroad, freight. 
Coal Pier- Pennsylvania Railroad. 

Central Stock Yard and Transit Co. 
New York, Lake Erie and Western Grain Elevator. 

See Diagram, this page. 

Pier 2— Manhasset Steatnship Line ; Simpson, Spruce 
& Young, agents^ 29 Broadway, New York. 

Pavonia Ferries to Chambers & W. 23d St., N. Y. 

Pier 4— Wells, Fargo & Co.'s Express. 

Pier 5— Erie Railroad track pier, 

Pier 6— Erie Railroad, freight. 
Erie Railroad, floats. 

Piers 8, 9-Erie Railroad floats. 

Piers 13, 12— Del., Lackawanna & W'n R.R., freight. 

" " floats. 

" " " " freight. 



BRADLEY'S REMINISCENCES OF NEW YORK HARBOR 



no HO KEN. 



Pier lo— Hoboken Coal Co., coal pockets. 

Piers 9, 8— Wm. Horre & Co., coal pockets. 

Piers 7, 6, 5— Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, coal. 

Piers 4. 3, 2 - " " " " miscellaneous. 

Pier I— " " " " Depot. 

Ferries to Christopher and Barclay Streets, New York. 
Pier 3, 2, i -HamburgAmerican Packet Co.'s steamship line ; general oftice, 37 Broadway, New York. 

Pennsylvania Railroad, Hoboken machine shops. 

Consolidated Iron Works, steam engines and boilers. 
Piers 3. 2, I- North-German U. S. M. Steamship Line: Oelrick & Co., agents, 2 Bowling Green, New York. 

U. S. Warehouse, Hoboken Stores; Campbell & Co's storage. 
4th Street Pier— Thingvalla Steamship Line, direct service to Scandinavia. 
5th Street Pier— Netherlands, American Steam Navigation Co. (U. S. M.) for Rotterdam and Amsterdam ; pi- 

senger agency, 39 Broadway, New York. 
6th Street Pier— Phitni.x Steamship Line to Antwerp; Sanderson & Co., 12 State Street, New York, agents. 

Campbell & Co., storage. 
Pier between 6th & 7th Streets— Netherlands American Steam Navigation Co. (U- S. iW.) for Rotterdam and 

Amsterdam. 

Chas. S. Schultz, mason materials. 
7th Street Pier— Discharging plant of Pocahontas Coal (^o. 

Pier— Rock Wall Plaster Co. ; Jacob Vanderbilt. building material, sand and gravel for concrete. 
9th Street Piers— Pocahontas Coal Co.'s coaling station for tugs and yachts (removed from 35th St., N. V. 

Hoboken Ferry Co.'s Machine Shops. 

Tietjen and Lang's shipyard. 

New Jersey Yacht Club. 

Myers' Excursion and Navigation Co 's Repair Yard. 

Ocean Steamship Co. of Savannah (freights. 

Yellow Pine Co.'s saw and planing mills. 

R. H. Macy & Co., cut glassworks. 

North River Iron works, W. & A. Fletcher Co. 

Elysian Machine works, Fred A. Vernon. 

FERRY TO 14th STREET, New York. 
Pier t— General Merchandise. 

u— John Mc Carty Bros.' dry dock, 
v— Tietjen & Lang dr>' dock, 
u — Willardsen & Johnson's dry dock. 
X— Frank Gokey's dry dock. 
b2 Weehawkcn Coal Pier. 



BRADLEY'S REMINISCENCES OF NEW YORK HARBOR. 



HUDSON RIVER. 



DISTANCE BY WATER FROM NEW YORK TO TROY. 



W EST SIDE. 
FROM THE Battery to 

Edgewater, N.J 

Pleasant Valley 

Fort Lee 

Englewood 

Nyack ■ 

Rockland Lake 

Haverstraw 

Grassy Point 

Tompkin's Cove 

lona Island 

Cranston's 

West Point 

Storm Kin'T 

Cornwall 

New Windsor 

Newbu'gti 

Marlborougli 

Milton 

Highland •• •• 

West Park 

Ulster Landing 

Rondout 96 

Saugerties ico 

Maiden 105 

Smith's Landing 109 

Catskill "5 

Athens 120 

Coxsackie '26 

New Baltimore '33 

Coeymens i35 

Albany I45 



44 



EAST SIDE. 
FROM THE BATTERY TO 

Miles 

Twenty-third Street 3 

Forty-second Street 4 

One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Street 8 

Spuyten Duyvil 10 

Yonkers I7 

Hastings 21 

Dobbs Ferry 22 

Irvington 26 

Tarrytown ^8 

Sing Sing 35 

Croton Point 44 

Peskskill 48 

Anthony's Nose 5° 

Cold Spring 54 

Fishkill 60 

New Hamburgh 67 

Poughkeepsie 76 

Hyde Park 81 

Rhinebeck 9° 

Tarrytown 98 

Tivoli 100 

Germantown m 

Hudson 120 

Stockport 126 

Stuyvesant .. 13° 

Castleton 14° 

Troy 151 



THE PORT OF NEW YORK. 

THE LIMITS OF THE PORT OF NEW YORK ARE AS FOLLOWS -- 
Both banks of the Hudson River, as far as a line crossing the river at a boundary bet^veen 
New York and Yonkers; both banks of the East River to a line drawn between Port Morris Dock 
and Lawrence, L. 1. ; all the shore of Staten island ; all the Kill von KuU ; all the lower bay outside 
of a line drawn from about Hoffman's Island to the ship channel off Sandy Hook Point. 



H. C. ROGERS. 



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COALING AT ALL HOURS, '^4v^ 

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COALINO STATIONS: 



K.x.t of Oth Streol 
HOBOKEX, N J. 



OF-RICES: 

Hooi-ns 32 and 33, 
No 1 Broadway, n.y. 



Foot of 7th Street, 
HOBOKEN, N.J. 



\Vu have just completed a pocket oti our new dock, foot of Oth Street, Iloboken, N. .1. 
haviiig removed from our former pier, foot of 35th Street, New York. 

This dock and pocket hue been built specially for coiiling tugs iuid yachts, and, haviii' 
t'viTV facility, we can coal over ICIU tons per hour, thus ensuring promplnc-is in loading. 




The well known reputation of our Pocahontas Flat Top Semi-Bituminous Coal (it being 
recognized as standing at the head of the Steam Coals in this Country), warrants us in guarantee- 
ing this coal as possessing the following advantages : — 

SAVING of TI>[E in con8ef|uence of being able to generate steam (|uickly, and in large 
quantities. 

SAVINfi of EXPENSE, as all parties using ouroonl claim that the aiiiountof P.icahontaa 
reijuircd in steaming is less than other coals, then by saving laigcly in the consumption of 
coal. 

CTiEANLINESS : a verv small amount of smoke is emitted from the smoke stack.-i, when 
POCAHONTAS COAL is being fired.. 

The Coal burns up clean, making a small percent ige of Ash. Engineers hiive informed 
us that they have less than half the amount of Ash made liv other Coals. It isalso free from ('linker. 

This Coal is used by the UNITKD STATES NAVY HKPAUT.MKNT as the slamlard 
coal in the trial tests. 



WATER IS FURNISHED FREE OF EXPENSE. 



We Coal at 



hours, day and night, including Sundays and 
Holidays. 



Home Insurance Company 

OF NEW YORK. 

OFFICE, 119 BROADWAY. 



ASSETS, January, 1896. = = = = = = $9,853,628 54 

LIABILITIES : 

Cash Capital ........ $.3,000,000 00 

Reserve Premium Fund 4,39.5,659 00 

Unpaid Losses ........ 571,731 41 

Unpaid Re-Insurance, Commission on Uncollected Premiums and other claims 180,783 72 

Net Surplus ........ 1,705,45.5 41 



$9,853,628 54 



Inland and Coastwise Marine Department. 

GEO. H. SMITH & HICKS, Marine Man.u-.ers. 
68 WILLIAM STREET, . - - - NEW YORK. 



LIBERAL FORMS OF POLICIES 

FOR ALL CLASSES OF HULLS, AND FOR CARGOES, TOWERS' LIABILLLY AND 
MERCHANDISE IN TRANSIT AT FAIR RATES. 



FACILITIES FOR HANDLINO LARGE LINES 



ADJUSTING AND SURVEY BUREAU. 



LOUIS F. BURKE, ALLEN H. DUMONT, 

AVERAGE ADJUSTER. INSPECTOR AND SURVEYOR. 



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Telephone,- 1479 CORTLANDT. 



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South Amhow Port Johnson, Hli/.abcthport anJ \idnit>-; 

anJ to all Points on [jin^: Island SounJ. Narra- 

^ansct and Bn/./aids Ba\s, Htc. 



By 8t:^am(^r8 Jos. 5'^ieK9ey. ]"f?os.J. Seully. ^. f\. packer, 
S(^9. D. Q. C^l?as(^ ar^d /T|ary flQQ. 



BAXTER WRECKING CO., 

OWNERS OF WRECKING AND FIRE STEAMER 



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JOHN FUL-L-ER, 

AND A FULL EQUIPMENT OF WRECKING PONTOONS FOR 
RAISING SUNKEN VESSELS AND CARGOES. 



STEAM PUMPS AND SUB-MARINE DIVERS 



APPLY TO 



JOHN F. BAXTER, 

SHIP CHANDLER, 308 West Street, Near Spring, NEW YORK. 



Telephone Call, 461 SPRIIVG. 



TELEPHOlSrE CALL, 867 BBOAD. 



C. F. HARMS, Agt. 

SCOWS, COVERED AND DERRICK BARGES, 

WITH AND WITHOUX STEAIvl. 



FOR STONE, 
IRON, COAL, GRAVEL =^ 
CEMENT. 




SAND, 

LUMBER & OTHER 

MERCHANDISE. 



Office: 140 BROAD STREKT, Corner South, NEW YORK 



HARBOR, RIVER AND SOUND LIGHTERAGE 

TUGS, BARGES, CANAL BOATS, ETC., FOR SALE OR HIRE. INLAND MARINE INSURANCE 
SEA, RIVER AND GATE TOWING CONTRACTED FOR. 



IRIi'S PEEKSKILL MD NEW YORK DAY LINE 



Landing ai Croion, Grassy Point and Verplancks Both Ways 



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THE PROPELLERS FANM WOODALL & PEEKSKFl 

Wii: Leave NEW TCKK. F::t :f JAKE ST. 
E\ery Day at 3 p. m. except Satui Jav. SalurJav at i p. m- 

Returning will leave Lower Dock. Peekskill, 
Even,- Day, (Sundays excepted), for New York, at 3 p m 

FREIGHT AND PASSEXCERS. 

OMPTNESS, SAFETY AND DISPATCH AT 
LOW RATES! 



WILLIAM S. HARTLEY. 



TUGS, BARGES, 

CANAL BOATS, ETC., FOR 

SALE OR HIRE. 






SEA, RIVER 
.^"^D GATE TOWING CON- 
TRACTED FOR. 



OfHce :-2a Mil 111 SlULl. 1. u|,>Unrs, .\EW YORK. 



HAHBOn, RIV ER & SOU ND LIGHTERAGE. 

Derrick Barges and Scows 

FOR STONE, IRON. COAL. GRAVEL. CEMENT. SANlJ. LUMBER .V OTHER .MERCHANDISE 

TEUEFHOSE CALL 819 BBOAD. INLAND MARINE INSURANCE. 



BRADLEY'S HARBOR TOWING LINE. 



I'rcipellcr H. W. UK VTM - . - Captain A.MMIJO.sk MIJ.MM.KV. 

Propeller WILI.IA.M 1 I LI.KR - Caitain I'lIAS. T. HHADLKV. 

AND OTHERS. 

Pier 56, foot of East 26th Street. New York. 



Biadley's Tide Tatile Caleqdais, 



BY David l Bradley. 



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American Shipbuilder, 

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HARBOR AND EXPRESS T()1\I\G. 

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STEAM VESSEL & YACHT AGENCY. 

Pl«n». Eiit>m»te». Ezpart BzaminatloD* and s'urweyi. 

HiH >,AI.K AM> 1 HAK rKK : — 

All classes of Yachts, I aunchcs Tugs. Freight an'l Passenger 
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